Across
- 3. a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life
- 4. an animal that feeds on flesh
- 6. a place where an organism makes its home
- 9. an organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area
- 13. a living organism that shapes its environment
- 16. Living things that have to hunt, gather and eat their food
- 18. all the different kinds of life you'll find in one area
- 19. a series of organisms that eat one another so that energy and nutrients flow from one to the next
- 21. are organisms that can make their own energy through biochemical processes
- 23. a group of actually or potentially interacting species living in the same location.
- 24. scavengers that feed of other organisms in the environment that have died
Down
- 1. a species' average population size in a particular habitat
- 2. association between organisms of two different species in which each benefits
- 5. describes the role an organism plays in a community
- 7. the position of an organism in the food chain
- 8. the study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them
- 10. the process by which the mix of species and habitat in an area changes over time
- 11. non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
- 12. consists of all the organisms of a particular species living in a given area
- 14. an organism that feeds mostly on plants
- 15. one organism kills and consumes another.
- 17. break apart dead organisms into simpler inorganic materials, making nutrients available to primary producers
- 20. an organism that regularly consumes a variety of material, including plants, animals, algae, and fungi
- 22. consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem