Ecology Part I

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