Across
- 2. a field of study that investigates the dynamics of populations, focusing on factors like population size, growth, and interactions with their environment.
- 7. an animal that primarily eats plants for sustenance.
- 9. a living being, such as an animal, plant, fungus, or bacterium.
- 10. the scientific study of organisms and their interactions with each other and their environment.
- 12. an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms for food, known as prey.
Down
- 1. a group of different populations of living organisms that interact within a specific area.
- 3. an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
- 4. is the scientific study of living things, encompassing their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution.
- 5. involving interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association.
- 6. an animal that is hunted and killed by another animal (a predator) for food.
- 8. is a dynamic system where living organisms (biotic factors) interact with their physical environment (abiotic factors).
- 11. is a heritable trait, whether behavioral, morphological, or physiological, that has evolved through natural selection and improves an organism's fitness in a given environment.