ECOLOGY

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Across
  1. 3. the process by which organisms use the sun's energy to make their own food
  2. 5. non-living parts of the environment
  3. 8. several interacting populations inhabiting a common environment
  4. 9. the scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environment
  5. 10. an organism that eats animals (meat)
  6. 13. an organism that can make its own food; a producer
  7. 15. any unicellular or multicellular individual
  8. 16. a group of organisms of one species living in the same place
Down
  1. 1. organisms that break down wastes and dead organisms and return raw materials to the ecosystem
  2. 2. all living organisms inhabiting the Earth
  3. 4. many overlapping food chains
  4. 6. one possible path of energy movement through an ecosystem
  5. 7. an organism that eats plants and animals
  6. 9. populations in a community and the abiotic factors they interact with
  7. 11. an organism that cannot make its own food; a consumer
  8. 12. an organism that eats dead and decaying animals and plants
  9. 14. an organism that eats plants