Ecology Wordsearch Crossword - Medium

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Across
  1. 2. The natural environment where an organism lives.
  2. 7. Organisms like fungi and bacteria that break down dead material.
  3. 8. The system of organizing living things into groups based on similarities.
  4. 9. Factor A living component in an environment, such as plants or animals (two words:6,6).
  5. 12. Any living thing, from tiny bacteria to large animals.
  6. 14. The process by which plants make food using sunlight.
  7. 15. Chain A linear sequence showing how energy is transferred from one organism to another (two words:4,5).
  8. 16. Animals that eat only other animals.
  9. 17. A community of organisms interacting with their environment.
Down
  1. 1. Factor A non-living element in an environment, like temperature or light (two words:7,6).
  2. 3. Level A position in a food chain or web, indicating an organism's feeding level(two words:7,5).
  3. 4. web A system of interconnected food chains in an ecosystem (two words:4,7).
  4. 5. Animals that eat only plants.
  5. 6. A group of the same species living in the same area.
  6. 10. Animals that eat both plants and other animals.
  7. 11. Organisms, like plants, that create their own food through photosynthesis.
  8. 13. All the populations of different species living together in an area.