Ecology Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

The study of how living things relate to their environment and interact w/ each other.
The total Amount of one species in a given space, habitat, or on our planet.
The combined life in a given habitat that interact and depend upon each other in a complex way.
Similar to community, but also includes the abiotic factors that impact organisms.
A unique large-scale habitat that is determined by climate (average temperature and precipitation); includes dessert, grassland, temperate forest, rain forest, tundra, etc.
Linear basic “story” of who eats whom, shows energy transfer.
Simple arrangement of living things in order of role/energy within a given habitat (producers at bottom, carnivores at top).
Shows the interrelationships among all species in a complex way with multiple arrows indicating energy transfer.
Living parts in an ecosystem.
Nonliving parts in an ecosystem.
The environment that has a unique set of conditions or characteristics ( water access, cover, temperature, soil condition, etc.) to support life.
A unique role that a species plays or a unique habitat in which a species occupies.
Plant eater.
Meat eater.
Eater of plants and animals
Plants (or algae, some bacteria), make food from the sun via photosynthesis, autotrophs.
Must rely on consuming, scavenging, or leaching off others for food/energy sources.
Breaks down “dead things”, frees up nutrients/energy and cycles them back into the “system”
Organism that makes its own food
Organisms that does not make ones own food - needs to eat.