Across
- 3. Organisms hunt and kill other organisms for food
- 5. The ability of an animal to perform a behavior without the need to learn or practice it
- 7. A species average population size in a certain habitat
- 11. Group of organisms linked in order of the food they eat
- 12. A plant
- 16. Organisms that eat producers or other organisms
- 17. A living organism that shapes the environment
- 18. A geographic area in which plants and animals live
- 19. Energy that is transferred from one organism to the next
- 20. A non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
Down
- 1. An organism that helps define an entire ecosystem
- 2. Animals that are killed and eaten by other animals
- 4. The area and resources used by a particular species
- 6. The amount of energy transferred from one organism to another
- 8. Consists of all of the food chains in an ecosystem
- 9. Anything that limits a populations size and stops it from growing
- 10. The position of an organism in a food chain
- 13. When animals are exposed to the same stimuli repeatedly and eventually stops reacting to it
- 14. Organisms that aren't originally from an ecosystem and could cause damage
- 15. Organisms that break dead organisms down
