Ecosystem Unit Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Animal that is killed and eaten by other animals
  2. 2. An organism that feed on other organisms or organic matter because it cannot make its own food
  3. 3. A combination of all the food chains in a community
  4. 7. The repeated movement of carbon through the environment in different forms
  5. 9. Part of an environment that is not alive and never have been alive
  6. 10. Any living thing
  7. 11. Everything that surround an organism and influences it
  8. 13. Organism that a parasite lives in or on
  9. 14. Concentration of dissolved salt and water
  10. 19. A place that provides all the things an organism needs to live
  11. 25. Organism that lives in or on another organism and gets its food from it
  12. 26. The repeated movement of nitrogen through the environment in different forms
  13. 27. All the populations living in one area
  14. 29. Living on land/land based ecosystems
Down
  1. 1. Animal that kills and eats other animals
  2. 4. Part of an environment that is alive or was alive at one time
  3. 5. Organisms that are so small that you need a microscope to observed them
  4. 6. The process by which green plants and blue green algae, in the present of light makes food out of carbon dioxide and water
  5. 8. Factors which prevent a community, population or organism from growing larger
  6. 12. The path of energy and matter in a community
  7. 15. Living in water/water based ecosystems
  8. 16. All the living things and nonliving things in an area and interactions
  9. 17. The processed by which an organism takes in and processes oxygen and release carbon dioxide
  10. 18. Organisms that feeds on and break down organisms
  11. 20. A plant eating animal
  12. 21. An animal that eats both meat and plants
  13. 22. A meat eating animal
  14. 23. The struggle of organisms for the same limited resources
  15. 24. A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time
  16. 28. An organism that makes its own food through the process of photosynthesis