ecology vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. living organism
  2. 4. the basic sl unit of energy
  3. 6. a organisms that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
  4. 9. when both species benefit
  5. 13. when a biological matter becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes
  6. 14. a heterotrophic component of the planktonic community
  7. 17. an organism that makes its own food
  8. 18. an organism often a bacteria that feeds on and breaks down dead plants
  9. 19. kills or repels or control forms of animal and plant life
  10. 20. the process of burning something
Down
  1. 1. a self regulating process to maintain stability
  2. 3. when an organism thrives only in a narrow range of environmental conditions
  3. 5. eats other organisms
  4. 7. a natural home or environment of a plant, animal or any other organism
  5. 8. any living thing (bacteria, plants animals, etc)
  6. 10. non-living organism
  7. 11. levels position on a food chain
  8. 12. the variety of life in a habitat or ecosystem
  9. 15. when 1 species benefits at the expense of the other
  10. 16. a community of living organisms