ecology crossword

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Across
  1. 3. release of harmful materials into the environment
  2. 5. chain a chain of organisms in which each link feeds on the one ahead and is eaten by the one behind
  3. 8. living and nonliving things in an environment, together with their interactions
  4. 10. capacity largest amount of a population that can be supported by an area
  5. 11. the study of living things and their environments
  6. 12. living
  7. 15. resource materials found in nature that CANNOT be renewed or replaced
  8. 16. reaction to a change
  9. 17. group of the same kind of organism living in a certain place
  10. 19. factors conditions in the environment that put limits on where an organism can live
  11. 21. wise use of natural resources
  12. 22. process of breaking down food so that it can be used by living things
  13. 23. trait of a living thing that helps it live in its environment
  14. 24. basic unit of structure and function in living things
  15. 26. something that happens over and over in the same way
  16. 28. organism's role, or job, in its habitat
  17. 29. everything that surrounds a living thing
  18. 30. process of getting energy from food
  19. 33. non-living
  20. 35. gradual change in organisms that occurs when the environment changes
  21. 37. to act upon eachother
  22. 38. animal hunted or caught for food
  23. 39. resource natural resouces that CAN be renewed or replaced
  24. 41. any living thing
Down
  1. 1. organisms that obtain food by eating other organisms
  2. 2. overall weather in an area over a long period of time
  3. 4. process of moving nutrients and wastes in a living thing
  4. 6. organism that breaks down the wastes or remains of other organisms
  5. 7. organism that makes its own food
  6. 9. animal that eats only dead organisms
  7. 13. place where an organism lives
  8. 14. large region of the earth with particular plant and animal communities
  9. 15. bacteria bacteria that can use nitrogen in soil to make nitrogen compounds
  10. 18. process of taking in food
  11. 20. the ability of a living thing to keep conditions inside its body constant
  12. 25. species kinds of living things that are in danger of dying out
  13. 26. community last community in a succession
  14. 27. thin zone of the earth that supports all life
  15. 29. process of getting rid of wastes
  16. 31. area where a type of animal or plant population is found
  17. 32. animal that hunts and eats other animals
  18. 34. resource materials found in nature that are used by living things
  19. 36. all populations that live in a certain place
  20. 40. pyramid way of showing how energy moves through a food chain