Across
- 3. would become over-populated if the fourth tropic level disappeared
- 4. an organism that eats other organisms
- 5. Consumes other organisms
- 10. Consumes meat and plants
- 12. Consumes plants only
- 13. growth that stops once carrying capacity is reached
- 16. when organisms leave a habitat it's called
- 17. No limiting factors causes
- 18. also known as a producer
Down
- 1. dictates where an organism should be in the food web
- 2. Breaks down organic material
- 4. the maximum amount of life a habitat can support
- 6. Damages to this trophic level can cause the whole ecosystem to collapse
- 7. Individuals moving into an ecosystem
- 8. biotic and abiotic factors that stop the population from increasing
- 9. consumes only plants
- 11. occupy to top of the trophic level pyramid
- 14. creates conditions for natural selection to take place
- 15. Abiotic limiting factor