Ecosystems Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. The natural home or environment of an organism
  2. 2. An animal that eats both plants and animals
  3. 5. A close and often long-term interaction between two different species
  4. 9. An animal that is hunted and eaten by predators
  5. 11. An organism that makes its own food, typically through photosynthesis
  6. 13. A community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
  7. 14. An organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms
  8. 16. Living components of an ecosystem
  9. 17. An animal that primarily eats other animals
  10. 18. A type of symbiosis where one species benefits and the other is harmed
Down
  1. 1. An animal that primarily eats plants
  2. 3. The role an organism plays in its environment
  3. 4. An organism that eats other organisms for energy
  4. 6. The struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
  5. 7. A type of symbiosis where one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
  6. 8. A type of symbiosis where both species benefit
  7. 9. An animal that hunts and eats other animals
  8. 10. Non-living components of an ecosystem
  9. 12. Chain A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food
  10. 15. A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and organisms