Ecology Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. community of interacting organisms
  2. 4. any living thing
  3. 6. Factors non-living parts of an ecosystem
  4. 10. natural home or environment
  5. 12. preys on others for food
  6. 14. decomposes organic material
  7. 15. habitat of a parasite
  8. 18. series of organisms dependent on each other for food
  9. 19. organisms that make their own supplies
  10. 21. animals that eat plants and animals
  11. 23. regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere
  12. 24. organisms that use something
  13. 25. caught by another animal for food
Down
  1. 1. group of organisms living in the same place or have similar characteristics
  2. 3. parasites' habitats
  3. 5. inhabitants of a certain area
  4. 7. Factors living parts of an ecosystem
  5. 8. organisms that are able to form nutritional substances
  6. 9. hierarchical levels in ecosystems
  7. 11. organism deriving its nutritional requirements
  8. 13. plant eating animal
  9. 16. animals which feed off dead organisms
  10. 17. interdependent food chains
  11. 20. animals that eat other animals
  12. 22. relations of organisms to one another