Across
- 2. Group of closely related organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring.
- 5. The energy in most ecosystems comes from the ____.
- 7. Fish, insects and other living things in and around a pond would be a _______.
- 8. Fungi need _____ conditions in their environment to survive.
- 11. These flowering plants require animals to carry pollen and disperse seeds.
- 13. An individual living thing.
- 15. Unicellualr organisms with cell walls but no nuclei.
- 17. Bacteria, fungi and plants all have cell _____.
- 18. All the organisms living in an area and their physical environment.
Down
- 1. Animals with a backbone are called _______.
- 3. All the members of the same species that live in the same place at the same time.
- 4. These are the initial source of food in aquatic ecosystems.
- 6. A group of various species that live in the same place and interact.
- 9. Bacteria and Fungi are important to the environment because they break down _____ organisms.
- 10. Factor that includes living or once living parts of the ecosystem.
- 12. A _______ is a reproductive structure of a fungi.
- 14. Factor that is a nonliving part of the ecosystem.
- 16. Some protist and ______ can make their own food from sunlight.
