Across
- 3. one living thing
- 4. both species benefit from the relationship
- 6. one species benefits, the other is neither helped nor harmed
- 8. all of the living and non living things that interact in a n area
- 10. all the members of one species living in an area
- 11. eats both plants and animals
- 12. recycles dead organisms and their wastes
- 14. occurs after a volcanic eruption, starts with mosses and lichens and changes into grass
- 16. how an ecosystem changes over time
- 20. one species benefits, the other is harmed in some way
- 22. uses water, sunlight, Makes sugar or glucose
- 24. uses food or glucose Makes carbon dioxide
- 27. eats only meat
Down
- 1. eats a herbivore
- 2. mix of sand, silt, and clay, Drains quickly but holds some water, good for plants
- 5. must eat something for energy
- 6. all of the different populations living in an area (no abiotic factors)
- 7. occurs after a forest fire (where soil is left)
- 9. smaller, packed together, particles keep it from draining, drowns plants because it absorbs to much water
- 13. makes its own food
- 15. eats dead animals
- 17. larger particles allow it to drain quicker, dries out quickly
- 18. eats plants
- 19. the variety of life(or species) on earth
- 21. eats only plants
- 23. living or once living
- 25. a close relationship between species that benefits at least one of the species
- 26. an environmental factor that is not alive, never lived, and was not part of something living
