Ecology words crossword puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. The region of the earth that encompasses all living organisms: Plants, animals, and bacteria.
  2. 5. The whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region.
  3. 6. Animals that are killed and eaten by other animals.
  4. 11. An organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
  5. 13. The study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them.
  6. 15. web A complex network of interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding relationships within a community.
  7. 16. level The position of an organism in the food chain.
  8. 18. Factors The living components (organisms) that serve up the environment.
  9. 21. An organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material.
  10. 23. Any living biological entity, such as an animal, plant, fungus, or bacterium.
  11. 24. An organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter.
Down
  1. 1. An organism that eats plants and animals.
  2. 2. An organism that mostly eats other plants and animals for energy and nutrients.
  3. 4. Factors A non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
  4. 5. A relationship between the two living species in which one organism is benefited at the expense of the other.
  5. 7. A community or group of living organisms that live in and interact with each other in a specific environment.
  6. 8. chain A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
  7. 9. An organism that captures and eats another organism.
  8. 10. A group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society.
  9. 12. The natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism.
  10. 14. Organisms that make their own food.
  11. 17. An organism that harbors another organism, inside or near their body, in a symbiotic relationship.
  12. 19. An organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals.
  13. 20. An organism that mostly feeds on plants.
  14. 22. An organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy.