Isle Royale Crossword Puzzle

2. web a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains
3. make their own food
6. study of all living things
7. animals that eat herbivores and sometimes other carnivores
8. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
10. the relationship between two species and both benefit
11. an animal that feeds on plants
16. the activity or condition of competing
17. the types of relationships between two species
18. the relationship between two species when one isn’t helped or harmed
19. animals that eat both plants and animals
21. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form

1. living organisms
3. any carnivorous animal that exists by preying on other organisms
4. the relationship between two species when a parasite can live inside or outside the other species, causing harm to it
5. chain a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food
9. a group of interacting populations occupying a given area
12. the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
13. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism
14. plants and animals that break down dead plants and animals into organic materials that go back into the soil
15. a particular section, group, or type of animals living in an area
18. animals that get their energy from producers or from organisms that eat producers
20. an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivores animal
22. non-living