Ecology Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. Eats only meant
  2. 9. Group of the same species
  3. 11. chain Single sequence of feeding relationships
  4. 13. All the organisms that live in a place together with their nonliving environment
  5. 14. level Each step in a food chain or food web
  6. 15. Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level
  7. 16. Total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere
  8. 17. Many food chains combined
  9. 19. Process in which chemical energy is used to produce carbohydrates
  10. 21. Physical or nonliving factor that shapes an ecosystem
  11. 22. Assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area
Down
  1. 1. The study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment
  2. 2. Single species that is not usually abundant in a community yet exerts strong control on thr structure
  3. 4. Autorophs convert light energy into chemical energy
  4. 5. Eats dead organic matter
  5. 6. Eats only plants
  6. 7. Organism that is able to capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and can produce its own food
  7. 8. Any living part of the environment with which an organism might interact
  8. 10. Eats both meat ans plants
  9. 12. Breaks down organic matter
  10. 18. Shows the amount of energy available at each trophic level
  11. 20. Organism that obtains food by consuming other living things