Module 2 - Ecology

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Across
  1. 3. Nonliving factors in an environment
  2. 4. Organisms that can produce fertile offspring
  3. 8. Scientific study of interactions among organisms and their environment
  4. 9. Both species benefit from the relationship
  5. 10. Examples include competing over food, space, and mates
  6. 14. Eat plants
  7. 16. An example of this type of relationship is a remora fish and a shark.
  8. 19. Main energy source in an ecosystem
  9. 20. Obtain energy from eating other species
  10. 21. The first level of consumers that eat the producers
Down
  1. 1. Break down dead and decaying things
  2. 2. AKA a Producer
  3. 5. A food __ is a series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten
  4. 6. Any relationship in which two species live closely together
  5. 7. The ___ consumers are always the third step up in an ecological pyramid
  6. 11. Organisms that make their own food for energy
  7. 12. Levels that describe the energy in each step of a food chain
  8. 13. An ecological __ is a diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy in each trophic level
  9. 14. In parasitism, one organism lives on or inside another and ___ it.
  10. 15. Place where a plant or animal lives
  11. 17. Role an organism plays in a community
  12. 18. Living factors in an environment
  13. 22. The 10% ___ states that each trophic level gets about 10% of the energy from the previous level