Across
- 3. all of the different species that interact in an ecosystem
- 5. nonliving things in an ecosystem
- 7. consumers eat tertiary consumers
- 10. Organisms that make their own food from sunlight
- 12. organisms that break down dead organisms and return nutrients into the soil.
- 13. Capacity the maximum population size of a particular species that a given ecosystem can sustain.
- 14. consumers, animals that eat primary producers
- 15. two organisms competing over the same resource
- 16. living things in an ecosystem
- 17. organisms that eat plants
Down
- 1. consumers eat primary consumers
- 2. two organisms benefiting from one another
- 4. eat other organisms
- 6. consumers eat secondary consumers
- 8. a group of individuals of the same species
- 9. organisms that eat other organisms (meat eaters)
- 11. all the living and nonliving things in an environment