Ecosystems

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Across
  1. 2. A group of organisms sharing common characteristics that interbreed and produce fertile offspring
  2. 5. Dry areas which are usually hot in the day and cold in the night
  3. 6. Group of organisms of the same species living in the same area at the same time
  4. 7. Group of populations living and interacting with each other in a common habitat
  5. 8. Non-living
  6. 10. Living
  7. 13. How an ecosystem changes in time
  8. 15. How an ecosystem is changing along an environmental gradient
  9. 17. Community and the physical environment it interacts with
  10. 18. Also called consumers
  11. 19. total gain in energy or biomass per unit area per unit time by green plants after allowing for losses to respiration
  12. 20. Organism that predator kills
  13. 21. Conversion of energy into biomass over a given period of time
  14. 23. lives in or on another organism called the host
  15. 25. Obtain energy from dead organisms
  16. 28. Neither species benefits, both species suffer
  17. 30. Animal eating plan
Down
  1. 1. Set of abiotic and biotic conditions and resources in which an organism or population responds
  2. 2. Has to do with animals
  3. 3. One species kills the other for food
  4. 4. Distance north or south from the equator
  5. 6. Process in which green plants make their own food from water and carbon dioxide
  6. 8. Also called producers
  7. 9. Species adapted to extreme conditions
  8. 11. Obtain energy from dead organisms
  9. 12. The environment in which species normally lives
  10. 14. Conversion of organic mater into carbon dioxide and water in all living organisms
  11. 16. Feed on both plants & animals
  12. 22. Has to do with plants
  13. 24. Both species benefit by interacting
  14. 26. Flow of energy from one organism to the next
  15. 27. Total gain in energy or biomass per unit area per unit time by green plants
  16. 29. Network of interrelated food chains