Ecology Vocabulary Crossword

Nonliving factors in an organisms environment
A biological community and all of abiotic factors that affect it
The portion of earth in which life exists including land, water, and air
Individual organisms of a single species that share the same geographic location at the same time
A large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities
Living factor in an organisms environment
A group of interacting populations that occupy the same geographic area at the same time
An area where an organism lives
The role or position that an organism has in its environment
A relationship between two or more organisms that live together and benefit from each other
An organism that collects energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to produce food
The act of one organism pursing and consuming another organism for food
A relationship in which one organism pursuing and consuming another organism for food
An organism that gets its energy requirements by consuming other organisms
Close relationship that exist when two or more species live together
A relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism
A heterotroph that eats only plants
A heterotroph that preys on other heterotrophs
Each step in a food chain or food web
Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level
Heterotrophs that consume both plants and animals
A series of steps in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eatin. Shows how energy flows in an ecosystem.
Factor that causes the growth of a population to decrease
Organisms that consume fragments of dead matter in an ecosystem return nutrients to the soil air and water were the nutrients can be reused by organisms
Network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem. Shows the many interconnected pathways in which energy flows