Across
- 2. a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains
- 3. a person,company,or country that makes,grows,or supplies goods or commodities for sale.
- 6. the conversion of one form of energy into another, or the movement of energy from one place to another.
- 10. interaction between organisms,populations, or species,in which birth,growth and death depend on gaining a share of a limited environmental resource.
- 11. levels each of several hierarchical levels in an ecosystem ,comprising organisms that share the same function in the food chain and the same nutritional relationship to primary sources of energy.p'
- 17. the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
- 18. a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
- 19. the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation
- 20. anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.
Down
- 1. a species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it removed the ecosystem would change drastically
- 4. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- 5. the action of habituating or condition of being habituated
- 7. factors a living organism that shapes its environment.
- 8. an organism, especially a soil bacterium,fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
- 9. the range of different inherited traits within a species.
- 12. an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli
- 13. a non-living part an ecosystem that shapes its environment
- 14. an animal that is caught and killed by another for food
- 15. the total quantity or weight of organisms in a given are or volume.
- 16. an organism that lives by preying on other organism.