Across
- 2. make their own food
- 4. also called biological community, in biology, an interacting group of various species in a common location
- 6. eat nonliving things
- 7. is an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
- 9. must eat food
- 13. eat both nonliving and living
- 17. living.
- 18. amount of one species in an ecosystem
- 20. is a kind of action that occurs as two or more objects have an effect upon one another
- 22. ample, abundant, bountiful describe a more than adequate supply of something. Plentiful suggests an over-adequate quantity: a plentiful supply.
- 23. eats living things
- 25. To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil
Down
- 1. The meaning of Perish is To die or be destroyed or killed.
- 2. Consumer 1st consumers
- 3. eats dead animals
- 5. individual living thing.
- 8. Web what eats what
- 10. deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
- 11. nonliving.
- 12. Chain shows energy flow from sun -> producers-> consumers
- 14. Consumer 2nd consumer
- 15. is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- 16. level- position of an organism in a food chain, food web, or an ecological pyramid
- 19. brakes down organic material
- 21. n ecology, the term “niche” describes the role an organism plays in a community
- 24. An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.