Across
- 3. Trophic level where organisms make their own food through photosynthesis
- 6. What 90% of energy is lost as in the transfer of energy
- 7. Organism that eats both plants and animals
- 9. Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
- 10. Organism that eats only animals
- 12. Group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring
- 14. capacity Largest number of individual of a particular species that a particular environment can support
- 15. Organism that chemically breaks down dead plants/animals
- 17. Assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area
- 18. Physical, or nonliving, factor that shapes an ecosystem
- 20. Part of the Earth in which life exists, including land, water, and air or atmosphere
- 23. Movement of individuals out of an area
- 24. Trophic levels where organism get their energy by eating other trophic level organisms
- 25. Groups of individuals of the same species that live in the same area
Down
- 1. Any living part of the environment with which an organism might interact
- 2. Level that shows each step in a food chain
- 4. Organism that gets their energy by eating other organisms
- 5. Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level
- 8. Original source of energy that flows through most ecosystems
- 11. Growth pattern in which a population’s growth slows and then stops following a period of exponential growth
- 13. Growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate
- 16. All the organisms that live in a place, together with their non-living environment.
- 19. Organism that only eats plants
- 21. Movement of individuals into an area occupied by an existing population
- 22. Organism that produces their own food