Ecology Vocab!

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Across
  1. 5. Producer that uses chemicals to make food
  2. 9. Eats plants and animals for energy/nutrients
  3. 10. Network of inter-lapping food chains
  4. 11. Organism that eats meat
  5. 13. Organism that breaks down material for energy
  6. 14. Non-living components of environment
  7. 17. Eats other organisms for food
  8. 19. Living thing that can function independently
  9. 20. Organism that harbors other organisms
  10. 21. Organism that eats both plants and animals
  11. 22. Total # of species living in an area
Down
  1. 1. Region of Earth that has all living things
  2. 2. Organisms that hunt and kill
  3. 3. Geographic area where organisms work together
  4. 4. Organism that consumes decaying biomass
  5. 6. The animal getting hunted
  6. 7. Living components of environment
  7. 8. Organisms that make their own food
  8. 10. Order of events, organisms eating one another
  9. 12. Interacting group of many species in 1 area
  10. 15. Position of organism on food chain
  11. 16. The study of organisms interactions
  12. 18. Home of an organism
  13. 20. Organism that eats plants
  14. 22. One organism benefits at cost of another