This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Ecology & Evolution has 22 clues. Answers range from 3 to 12 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Living factors that influence an ecosystem.
Non-living factors that influence an ecosystem.
Organisms that make their own energy from turning sunlight into food.
The first organism on a food web that use photosynthesis (also called autotrophs).
Organisms that cannot make their own food, so they rely on other organisms to provide it.
Organisms that eat or absorb their energy from other organisms (also called heterotrophs).
Plant Eaters
Meat Eaters
Eats both plants and meat.
Gets their energy by breaking down dead or decaying organisms.
The type of consumers who eat only plants are considered the ________________ consumers.
The consumers who eat primary consumers are called _____________ consumers.
The third level of consumer who is usually the top carnivore of an ecosystem.
What percent of energy is transferred from one trophic level to a higher trophic level?
When two organisms of the same or different species attempt to use a resource at the same time.
The place where an organism lives and the roles that an organism has in its habitats.
An organism that kills its food is known as a _____________.
The organism that is killed for food is known as the ________.
Any relationship in which two species live closely together.
A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit.
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism is benefited and the other is harmed.