Across
- 2. Live in digestive tract and serve 3 functions: breaking down food, help our immune system. and help fight pathogens directly.
- 5. Person who studies insects.
- 8. Dead human body.
- 12. Expert in the function of the immune system.
- 13. Relationship of living things to one another and surroundings.
- 14. Could take over if large mammals become extinct.
- 15. Tend to have fewer offspring and breed slower than small species.
- 16. Country that introduced sheep in the 1890's - but dung beetles could not break down the sheep waste.
- 17. Insect used to break down sheep waste introduced by George Bornemissza to Australia.
- 19. Meat eater.
Down
- 1. Term for animal waste that insects help to break down.
- 3. Best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply.
- 4. Gut living things that include bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
- 6. Reproduce quickly and are the source of diversity after a mass extinction.
- 7. Someone who knows a lot about something or is a fan of something.
- 9. To get rid of
- 10. Multiple universes.
- 11. The act of insects carrying plant pollen from plant to plant to allow for fertilization.
- 17. Variety
- 18. Retired as a farmer in the Endgame trailer.