Isle Royale Crossword

1. An organism that eats both plants and meat for energy.
5. An interconnected chain of organisms related to energy transfer that indicates which are predators and which are prey in relation to one another.
7. An organism that uses the sun’s energy for producing food.
8. An organism that breaks down organic material.
9. the relationship between two species when a parasite can live inside or outside the other species, causing harm to it.
10. The study of how living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) parts of the environment interact with each other.
11. the relationship between two species when one isn’t helped nor harmed.
13. Any living thing that has living characteristics and is composed of one or more cells.
15. The region occupied by a group of interacting organisms.
16. All the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat.
18. An organism that eats meat for energy.

2. A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment.
3. A network of interconnected food chains in an ecological community.
4. An organism that eats plants for energy.
6. the struggle between two organisms for the same resources (food, water, shelter, light, territory, etc.) within an environment
10. the total of all of the surroundings
12. The natural environment of a plant or animal.
14. the relationship between two species and both benefit.
17. Nonliving factors in the environment.
18. An organism that consumes another organism as food for energy.