EC - Year 9 Ecology - Crossword Labs

9. A series of organisms that depend on the next as a source of food.
10. An organism that eats the flesh of other animals.
14. The position of an organism on the food chain.
17. the process in which plants use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to create energy.
19. An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals and their waste.
20. All living things are...
21. A relationship where one species benefits and the other does not.
22. A symbiotic relationship where all species gain benefit from their relationship.
23. A consumer that eats the animals that eats the animals that eat plants.
26. The study of the relationship amongst organisms and how they interact with the environment around them.

1. An organism that feeds on plants.
2. A living thing that is capable of eating, growing and reproducing. This includes plants and animals.
3. A consumer that eats animals that eat plants
4. Something that is not living.
5. Creates its own food or energy.
6. Where one organism kills and eats the other.
7. A complex relationship where organisms work together in their environment to form a bubble of life.
8. A global ecosystem consisting of biotic and abiotic factors.
11. A group of things living in a particular area.
12. Consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem.
13. A relationship between species where one benefits at the expense of the other.
15. An organism that feeds on both plants and meat.
16. A collection of species that are commonly found together
17. A consumer that eats plants
18. Where an organism makes its home and meets the environmental conditions in the area to live.
24. The production of carbon dioxide in an ecosystems carbon flux.
25. An organism on the food chain that depend on producers for food.