Across
- 2. Place where an organism lives
- 7. A consumer that eats only plants.
- 9. no two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time
- 11. An organism that cannot make its own food.
- 12. a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
- 13. total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level
- 14. A community of organisms and their abiotic environment
- 18. All the different populations that live together in an area
- 19. A group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
- 20. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
Down
- 1. A consumer that eats only animals.
- 3. An organism that makes its own food
- 4. a scavenger, such as an earthworm, that feeds on dead plant and animal matter
- 5. Non-living parts of our environment
- 6. one organism benefits and the other is unaffected
- 8. A diagram that shows the biomass of organisms at each trophic level
- 10. The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment
- 15. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
- 16. living parts of an ecosystem
- 17. part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere
