Ecology Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

Edit Answers
123456789101112131415161718192021222324
Across
  1. 4. example: mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism
  2. 5. hint: ecosystems change, and so do the species that inhabit them over time
  3. 9. definition: relationship between two species in which one species benefits, and the other is neither helped nor harmed
  4. 10. capacity/ example:the Earth's _______ ________ is the largest number of organisms it can support
  5. 11. hint: can be referred to or based on temperature
  6. 15. synonyms: group, body, clique
  7. 16. example: mushrooms, bacteria, some insects and snails
  8. 19. factors/ example: plants and animals
  9. 20. hint: heterotroph
  10. 22. example: the place you and your family live
  11. 23. synonym: interdependence
  12. 24. definition: interaction between two organisms in which one organism, the predator, kills and feeds on the other organism, the prey
Down
  1. 1. example: tapeworms- attach themselves to the insides of the intestines of animals.They get food by eating the host's partly digested food, depriving the host of nutrients.
  2. 2. hint: temperature and precipitation are factors of climate the determine these
  3. 3. definition: genetic variation within a population
  4. 6. cycle/ definition: the cycling of nitrogen between organisme, soil, water, and the atmosphere
  5. 7. level/ hint: energy flows through _____ _______ to create food chains
  6. 8. example: The _________ of Albany, GA is 76,185.
  7. 12. cycle/ hint: as carbon moves from the nonliving environment to the living environment the _____ ______ takes place
  8. 13. cycle/ hint: important part of ATP and DNA and must be cycled in order for an ecosystem to support life; this cycle must take place
  9. 14. factors/ synonym: nonliving
  10. 17. hint: made up of a community, along with the living and nonliving envioronment
  11. 18. pyramid/ definition: a triangular diagram which shows an ecosystems' loss of energy
  12. 21. hint: perform photosynthesis