Ecology

2. An organism that breaks down dead organisms
4. Web: A network of interconnected food chains.
5. A single individual living thing.
9. The place where an organism lives.
11. All the different populations living in an area.
12. A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped.
16. Chain: A linear sequence of organisms that eat each other.
18. The non-living components of an ecosystem (air, water, soil, temperature, etc.).
19. All members of the same species living in the same area.

1. An organism that eats other organisms.
3. A community and all the abiotic factors in its environment.
6. An organism's role or position in its environment.
7. An organism that makes its own food (like plants through photosynthesis).
8. The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment.
10. The global sum of all ecosystems on Earth.
13. Any relationship where two or more organisms live together.
14. A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of the other.
15. The living components of an ecosystem (plants, animals, etc.).
17. A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.