Ecology Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. The natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism.
  2. 3. A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
  3. 5. A community or group of living organisms that live in and interact with each other in a specific environment
  4. 6. An Organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.
  5. 8. An organism that lives on a host, taking what it needs to stay alive while often injuring the host.
  6. 9. An individual that is plant human or animal
  7. 11. A branch of biology that study's the characteristic that connects certain animal to a common ancestor
  8. 12. The position of an organism in the food chain
  9. 13. An animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food.
  10. 14. One who receives or entertains guests socially or as a business
  11. 16. An animal that lives by killing and eating other animals
  12. 19. The region of the earth that encompasses all living organisms: plants, animals and bacteria.
  13. 20. An non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
  14. 21. The whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region
  15. 22. A Organism who consumes a product or service.
  16. 23. An organism that eats mostly meat, or the flesh of animals
Down
  1. 2. An living organism that shapes its environment.
  2. 3. Consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem.
  3. 4. A group of people living or working together in the same area.
  4. 7. An organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
  5. 9. An organism that eats plants and animals
  6. 10. A person who collects things discarded by others.
  7. 15. An organism that mostly feeds on plants
  8. 17. A organism that breaks down dead organic material.
  9. 18. A maker or manufacturer of something.