Intro to ecology/ jaxson

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Across
  1. 2. a community of living organisms
  2. 4. a group of organisms that can reproduce and produce fertile offsprin
  3. 6. a complex diagram that shows the feeding relationships between all the organisms in an ecosystem
  4. 8. a visual representation of the relationship between organisms in an ecosystems food chain
  5. 10. a linear model that shows the transfer of energy and nutrients through an ecosystem
  6. 13. a positions in the food chain where organisms are grouped based on their feeding relationships
  7. 15. an organism that decomposes on dead organic matter
  8. 18. the branch of biology with the relations of organisms to one another and to the surroundings
  9. 19. a renewable organic material that comes from plants or animals
  10. 21. the synthesis of organic compounds by bacteria or other living organisms using energy derived from reactions involving inorganic chemicals
  11. 22. an organism that can produce its own food using energy from sunlight
  12. 23. an organism that can create its own food
Down
  1. 1. a group of animals that eat plants
  2. 3. an animal which feeds on dead organic material
  3. 5. an organism that eats other plants or animals fro energy or nutrients
  4. 7. made up of the parts of earth where life exists
  5. 9. a group of animals that eat other animals
  6. 11. a living organism that eats or uses something
  7. 12. the process by which plants algae and some bacteria use sunlight energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen
  8. 14. a group of animals that eat plants and other animals
  9. 16. a group of people living in the same place
  10. 17. the total number of people or other inhabitants in a specific area
  11. 20. a geographical area with a specific climate vegetation and animal life