Ecology Crossword

non-living components
living components
eats only meat
a formation of plants and animals that have common characteristics due to similar climates and can be found over a range of continents.
a person or thing that eats or uses something
organism that breaks down dead or decaying things
a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains
a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved.
an association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm
the practice of living as a parasite in or on another organism
the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water
organisms in an ecosystem that produce biomass from inorganic compounds (autotrophs).
an organism is the position it occupies in a food chain
eats plants and animals
eats only plants
an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide
an organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense.
an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances
the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism
the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment