Across
- 4. all living things in an environment
- 5. organisms interacting with their physical environment
- 9. the variety of plant and animal life in a habitat
- 11. an organism capable of synthesizing its own food
- 13. an animal that eats other animals to survive
- 14. to the soil and by breaking down dead organisms
- 15. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other
- 16. an animal that eats plants to survive
- 19. an animal that harms its host while living inside it
- 20. the relation between two organisms that benefit each other
Down
- 1. Anything that restricts the number of individuals living in a population
- 2. Organisms that benefit an ecosystem by returning
- 3. an organism that feeds on complex organic substances
- 6. all nonliving things in an environment
- 7. symbiosis when 1 organism can get helped by another without harming the other organism
- 8. all relationships between organisms and their environment
- 9. major ecological community with distinct climate and flora
- 10. Ex: herbivores, carnivores, scavengers
- 12. an animal that eats both plants and animals
- 13. the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.
- 17. the study of relations of organisms to their environment
- 18. Places that make up all of the habitats
