Ecology Vocabulary Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. An interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism
  2. 4. Ecological relationship in which two organisms attempt to obtain the same resource
  3. 7. An animal that eats both plants and animals
  4. 12. A consumer that eats only plants.
  5. 14. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
  6. 15. examples include wind, precipitation and soil
  7. 17. an organism that can make its own food; producer
  8. 18. A series of predictable and orderly changes within an ecosystem over time.
  9. 20. A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is harmed
  10. 21. A group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
  11. 23. Each step in a food chain or food web
  12. 24. the pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
  13. 25. An environmental factor that prevents a population from increasing
  14. 26. Growth pattern in which a population's growth rate slows or stops following a period of exponential growth
  15. 27. factors that affect a population based on the size of the population; predation, disease
Down
  1. 1. a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
  2. 2. A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected; + 0
  3. 5. Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support
  4. 6. A relationship in which both species benefit: ++
  5. 8. an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms; consumer
  6. 9. linear series of steps in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten
  7. 10. A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other
  8. 11. limiting factor that affects all populations in similar ways, regardless of population size
  9. 13. living factors in the environment
  10. 16. A consumer that eats only animals.
  11. 19. scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
  12. 22. Growth of a population in an ideal, unlimited environment, represented by a J-shaped curve when population size is plotted over time.