Ecology Part I

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Across
  1. 4. a particular community of interacting organisms
  2. 7. consume the things that are produced in the environment, otherwise known as the second largest level of the trophic levels
  3. 8. the different levels of organisms and their energy in an ecosystem/environment
  4. 9. the maximum amount of animals an environment can possibly hold
  5. 12. mass of all living organisms in a specific area
  6. 14. top of the food chain
  7. 17. the factors that limit something from growing
  8. 19. fighting for something in the environment with other organisms/species
  9. 20. the transfer of energy from organism to organism
Down
  1. 1. a species that negatively affects the environment
  2. 2. the variety of life in a particular ecosystem
  3. 3. an organism that helps to define an entire ecosystem
  4. 5. the first trophic level
  5. 6. an animals natural response to a certain situation
  6. 10. this type of consumer is a herbivore, otherwise known to feed on plants
  7. 11. 10% of energy consumed by one trophic level is passed onto the next
  8. 13. the action or condition of being habitated
  9. 15. the flow of energy through trophic levels can be shown in this
  10. 16. break down dead or decaying organisms
  11. 18. the range of different inherited traits within a species