Across
- 2. Consumers that only eat meat
- 5. A model that shows feeding relationships in an ecosystem
- 6. A system made up of all living organisms interacting with one another and their environment
- 10. The natural home of a living thing, including where it finds it's food and shelter
- 14. An organism that obtains its food by feeding on other organisms or organic matter
- 16. How ecologists better describe feeding relationships between organisms
- 20. An organism that makes its own food using energy from the sun or other sources
- 21. When new land forms or when an area is disturbed, a community goes through a period called
- 22. What herbivores eat
Down
- 1. Consumers that eat both plants and meat
- 3. Living organisms and their interaction with each other
- 4. A biome that contains warm rainy forests, orchid and canopy
- 7. A biome that contains treeless plains with a cold, dry climate
- 8. All the organisms of one species living within an ecosystem
- 9. When 2 or more organisms live together, and both get a benefit out of the living situation
- 11. A biome that contains prairie, steppes, pampas and veldts
- 12. Organisms that break down the wastes or dead material from both producers and consumers
- 13. All nonliving components of an ecosystem
- 14. When 2 organisms live in a relationship where one benefits while the other is neither harmed nor helped
- 15. An organism's function in its habitat, including its relationship with other organisms
- 17. When 2 organisms live in a relationship where one benefits and the other is harmed
- 18. The meaning of "troph" in Latin
- 19. Areas of the world with similar climate, animals and plants
