Ecology Puzzle

2. eats both plants and meat
3. an organism that makes its own food
6. an environmental factor that is not alive, never lived, and was not part of something living
9. all of the living and nonliving things that interact in an area
10. all of the different populations living in an area (no abiotic factors)
12. eats dead animals
14. one species benefits, the other is neither helped nor harmed
16. living or once living (and now dead) or made by something that was alive
17. eats plants
18. made up of weathered rock, minerals, humus, water and air

1. mix of sand, clay, and silt
2. one living thing
4. one species benefits, the other is harmed in some way
5. all the members of one species living in an area
7. being dependent on others for some needs, being mutually dependent on each other
8. both species benefit from the relationship
11. eats meat
13. the variety of life (or species) on Earth
15. a close relationship between species that benefits at least one of the species