Across
- 2. of or near a coast.
- 4. include all of the living things in an environment. For example, the animals, plants, fungi, bacteria etc...
- 5. the action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another.
- 7. Adjustment to a changing environment
- 10. an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
- 13. an organism that produces organic compounds from simple substances such as water and carbon dioxide; an autotroph.
- 15. an animal that naturally preys on others.
- 16. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- 17. the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects.
- 18. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
- 20. a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
Down
- 1. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- 3. include all of the non-living things in an environment. For example, the soil, water sources, rock types, temperature, wind etc..
- 6. an organism that derives the organic compounds and energy it needs from the consumption of other organisms; a heterotroph.
- 8. the action of clearing a wide area of trees.
- 9. webs a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
- 11. have very low rainfall and extreme temperatures
- 12. chains a series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
- 14. an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food.
- 19. ending to spread very quickly and undesirably or harmfully.
