Interdependence in Ecosystems

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Across
  1. 4. consumes producers for energy
  2. 5. relationship where one organism lives with, on, or in another and harms it.
  3. 6. energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed
  4. 12. when mass cannot be created or destroyed, it is only moved through the environment
  5. 15. the amount of energy that gets transferred from organism to organism in a food chain
  6. 16. two species live closely together at least one benefits
  7. 17. all the species that live and interact with one another in an area
  8. 18. closely related organisms that can mate
  9. 21. used to trace energy flow in an ecosystem
  10. 26. uses energy to make their own food
  11. 28. consumes primary consumers for energy
  12. 29. web demonstrates the feeding relationships between organism in an ecosystem
  13. 30. a factor that is the living part of the environment
  14. 31. a relationship where both species beenfit
  15. 32. the role an organism or population plays in an environment
Down
  1. 1. succession when a place that was inhabited by living organisms then got disrupted by something like a volcano
  2. 2. a gradual change that occurs over time when the species and habitat in an area change.
  3. 3. a relationship in which one species benefits and other species is neither helped nor harmed
  4. 7. a factor that is the non-living part of the environment
  5. 8. the place where an organism lives
  6. 9. an organism that breaks down the remains of other organisms to gain energy and nutrient
  7. 10. an organism that consumes plants for nutrients and energy
  8. 11. an organism that consumes animals
  9. 13. an organism that consumes both plants for nutrients and energy
  10. 14. succession when the environment is starting from scratch.
  11. 19. an organism that gains energy and nutrients by consuming other organism
  12. 20. a region that includes many different ecosystems
  13. 22. energy and matter move through this cycle
  14. 23. a group of individuals that live in the same place and are the same species
  15. 24. an interaction where predator kills prey for food or nutrients
  16. 25. a community of organisms and the non-living factors within it
  17. 27. chain the path of energy transfer from producers to consumers