Ecology Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Individuals of one species benefit, while individuals of the other species do not benefit and are not harmed
  2. 4. The place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows.
  3. 5. The science of the relationships between organisms and their environments
  4. 11. Organisms that are eaten by other organisms.
  5. 12. Organisms that eat other organisms.
  6. 15. are plants, algae, and some kinds of bacteria
  7. 16. Consumers that eat plants and meat.
  8. 17. Consumers that eat dead organisms.
  9. 19. Individuals of the same species in the same area (environment) at the same time
  10. 20. Organisms that live together in an ecosystem
  11. 21. A complex diagram showing the transfer of energy pathways in an ecosystem.
  12. 22. The part of the earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life.
  13. 25. is an area classified according to the species that live in that location
  14. 27. Organisms that eat meat
  15. 28. means all the LIVING things in an ecosystem (environment
  16. 29. any association between two organisms living in close association with each other.
  17. 30. Consumers that eat plants
Down
  1. 1. Things that keep a population from growing
  2. 2. Organisms that get food from an outside source
  3. 3. The way an organism interacts with the biotic and abiotic environment.
  4. 6. Two or more organisms trying to use the same limited resources at the same time.
  5. 7. one organism [the parasite] benefits, and the other [the host] is adversely affected [weakened, sickened, damaged etc].
  6. 8. When one organism looks like another for protection.
  7. 9. Largest population an environment can support over a period of time.
  8. 10. an association (symbiotic relationship) in which both organisms benefit
  9. 13. Triangular diagram showing the loss of energy at each level of the food chain.
  10. 14. FACTORS means all the NON-LIVING things in an ecosystem
  11. 18. / PRODUCERS Organisms that can make their own food from sunlight or chemicals
  12. 23. A community of organisms and the abiotic factors in the environment.
  13. 24. A diagram that shows how the energy flows from one organism to the next.
  14. 26. Organisms that break down dead organisms