Across
- 3. The change of energy from one form another
- 5. An organism that consumes all or part of the body of another-living or recently killed-organism
- 6. All different kinds of life you'll find in one area-the variety of animals,plants,fungi,and even microorganisms like bacteria that make up our natural world
- 10. A non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
- 11. The direct or indirect interaction of organisms that leads to a change in fitness when the organisms share the same resources
- 12. The total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume
- 15. Consists of the food chains in a single ecosystem
- 16. The area and resources used by a particular species or an assemblage of animals and plants together with their abiotic environment
- 18. the range of different inherited traits within a species
- 19. Living things that have to hunt, gather and eat their food
- 20. Animals that are killed and eaten by other animals
- 21. The position of an organism in the food chain
Down
- 1. A graphical representation of the energy found within the Trophic levels of an ecosystem
- 2. Plants
- 4. An organism that helps hold the system together
- 7. A species average population size in a particular habitat
- 8. Anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stop it from growing
- 9. Non-native organism that begins to spread or expand its range from the site of is original introduction and that has the potential to cause harm to the environment
- 13. A state of dynamic equilibrium within a community of organisms in which genetic, species and ecosystem diversity remain relatively stable, subject to gradual changes through natural succession
- 14. A living organism that shapes its environment
- 17. Limits the number of trophic levels an ecosystem can support
