Ecology

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Across
  1. 2. levels, A feeding level in a food chain or food web, e.g. producer, primary consumer
  2. 3. An organism (such as fungi/bacteria) that lives and feeds on dead and decaying plant and animal matter
  3. 5. The mixture of gases surrounding the earth and other planets
  4. 9. Animals that eat both plants and animals
  5. 10. One of the four inner or terrestrial planets of the solar system
  6. 11. Non-living physical and chemical factors in the environment which affect ecosystems
  7. 13. An animal that eats plants
  8. 17. A living component of an ecosystem (plants, animals)
  9. 19. web, The feeding relationships between organisms in the same community
  10. 22. Organisms that feed off other animals and plants for energy
  11. 24. An organism that feeds on dead plants and animals, or animal waste.
  12. 25. An organism that produces its own food; for example, plants using energy transferred from light in photosynthesis to produce glucose
  13. 26. The destruction of large areas of forest and woodland
  14. 28. Organisms of the same species living together in a particular habitat
  15. 29. The amount of water on the planet (such as underground, on the surface and in the atmosphere)
Down
  1. 1. The community of organisms and their environment in an area that interact together
  2. 4. An organism that gets its food by eating other organisms; and animals
  3. 5. An organism that serves as a primary producer in a food chain
  4. 6. The study of organisms and their environment
  5. 7. A living thing that can function on its own, such as animals and plants
  6. 8. fuel, Fuel formed from organic material, such as peat, coal and oil
  7. 12. An animal that eats animals
  8. 14. Physical, chemical and biotic factors interacting with an organism to determine its form and survival
  9. 15. The mass of a living organism
  10. 16. Burning, such as that of fossil fuels
  11. 18. A part of the Earth in which living organisms exist
  12. 20. All the organisms that live in the same habitat
  13. 21. (food) pyramid, A diagram that shows the relative amounts of a specific component at the different trophic levels of an ecosystem.
  14. 23. A group of organisms that share many features and can interbreed to produce to produce fertile offspring
  15. 27. chain, A network or arrangement of organisms in line to their predation order