Ecology and the Environment

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Across
  1. 2. a living Thing
  2. 5. organisms that can mate and produce offspring that can produce offspring
  3. 9. all the members of a species living in an area
  4. 10. eats both plants and animals
  5. 11. molecules of liquid water absorbing energy and changing to a gas
  6. 12. must feed on other organisms for food
  7. 13. moving into a population
  8. 15. the role of an organism in it’s environment
  9. 17. all the different populations live together in an area
  10. 18. behaviors and characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully
  11. 19. symbiosis, 1 species benefits but the other doesn’t but is not harmed
  12. 22. organisms that break down biotic waste and dead organisms
  13. 23. an environment that provides things a specific organism needs
  14. 25. symbiosis, 1 species benefits but the other doesn’t and is harmed
  15. 27. things used by people such as trees, water, & coal
  16. 28. leaving a population
  17. 29. in predation, the one that gets killed
  18. 30. relationship where two species live closely together and at least one benefits
  19. 31. eats only plants
Down
  1. 1. can make it’s own food
  2. 3. special carnivore that eats dead animals
  3. 4. nonliving parts of a habitat
  4. 6. contamination of Earth’s land, water or air
  5. 7. a gas changing back into a liquid
  6. 8. one organism kills another for food or nutrients
  7. 9. drops of water falling from the clouds in the form of rain, sleet snow, or hail
  8. 14. eats only animals
  9. 16. the study of how organisms interact with the environment
  10. 19. struggle between organisms to survive
  11. 20. symbiosis, where both species benefit
  12. 21. part of a habitat that is living or once living
  13. 24. in predation, the one that does the killing
  14. 25. in parasitism, the organism that is lived on or in
  15. 26. in parasitism, the organism that benefits
  16. 28. all the organisms in an area along with it’s nonliving environment