Across
- 4. a person or thing that eats or uses something.
- 5. an animal that feeds on plants.
- 6. an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food.
- 8. an animal that naturally preys on others.
- 10. Factor a living organism that shapes its environment.
- 11. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- 12. an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
- 15. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
- 16. Factor a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
- 18. the activity or condition of competing.
- 19. the preying of one animal on others.
Down
- 1. interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both.
- 2. an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse.
- 3. an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals
- 7. the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
- 9. all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.
- 10. large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra.
- 13. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
- 14. any kind of green plant.
- 17. an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
