Across
- 3. A relationship between two species where both benefit from the association
- 4. An organism that lives by eating/ hunting other organisms
- 8. Organisms that transmit disease-causing pathogens to other species of animals
- 9. An organism that is hunted or eaten
- 11. A relation ship between organisms in which the smaller organism lives in or on the larger organism and harms it
- 14. One organism lives on another
- 16. An interconnection of food chains (a graphical representation of what eats what in an ecological community)
- 17. A close and often long-term relationship between two or more species of organisms
- 18. A series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits (a smaller organism is eaten by a larger organism which is then eaten by a larger one)
- 19. Role and position a species has in its environment
- 20. A community of living organisms in conjunction with the non-living components of their environment interacting as a system
Down
- 1. An organism that can make its own food from inorganic substances
- 2. a relationship where only one member benefits but the other is not harmed
- 5. A relationship where one species is completely obliterated and the other is unaffected
- 6. Relationship where one symbiont lives within the tissues of the other organism
- 7. A relationship that proves deadly to both organisms involved
- 10. Larger organism in a symbiotic relationship
- 12. An organism that breaks down the cells of dead organisms into simpler substances
- 13. An organism that feeds on plants or other animals
- 15. Smaller organism in a symbiont relationship