Ecology Cross Word Puzzle

2. consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact
5. organisms that break down dead/decaying organisms
7. an area classified according to the species that live in that location.
9. a place where an organism makes its home
11. is an interaction in which one organism, the predator, eats all or part of the body of another organism, the prey.
13. the consumption of plant material by animals
15. an animal that feeds on plants
17. symbiosis that is both beneficial to both organisms involved
18. nonliving part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
19. an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.

1. A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains
3. an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal
4. an association between two organisms in which one benifits and other derives neither benifit nor harm
6. a living organism that shapes its enviornment
8. an animal that only eats other animals
10. a graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem.
11. the practice of living as a parasite in/on another organism
12. the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
14. The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings
16. the role an organism plays in a community
18. an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.