Across
- 2. a person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale
- 3. a group of people living in the same place
- 5. a person who purchases goods and services for personal use
- 7. a large naturally occuring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra
- 9. a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains
- 10. physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms
- 13. an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus,or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material
- 15. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism
- 16. a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes
- 17. relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations
- 18. a section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country
Down
- 1. the cycle of processes by which circulates between the earths oceans
- 4. an animal that feeds on flesh
- 5. the series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment
- 6. an animal that feeds on plants
- 8. a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food
- 11. the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth occupied by living organisms
- 12. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
- 14. an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin
