Unit 8: Ecology - Vocabulary Quiz #15

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Across
  1. 5. The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment
  2. 7. a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
  3. 10. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
  4. 13. A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is harmed
  5. 14. A consumer that eats only plants.
  6. 16. succession that occurs in an area in which no trace of a previous community is present
Down
  1. 1. limiting factors whose influence is not affected by population density
  2. 2. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
  3. 3. relationship in which two species live closely together
  4. 4. type of succession that occurs in an area that was only partially destroyed by disturbances
  5. 6. A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten
  6. 8. A group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
  7. 9. limiting factors that depend on population size
  8. 11. A consumer that eats only animals.
  9. 12. All the living organisms that inhabit an environment
  10. 15. Nonliving components of environment.