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Ecology Vocabulary Word

MR. ANWAR'S SCIENCE CLASS
Across
Multiple individuals within an environment or ecological organization
An organism that eats only other consumers
A characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment (Ex: A cactus storing water)
The order in which animals feed on plants and other animals
a nonflowering plant group that includes the seaweeds and many single-celled forms.
The continuous recycling of Earth’s water
An organism, such as bacteria or fungus, that breaks down dead matter and returns nutrients to the soil
A consumer that eats both plants and meats
The part of an ecosystem that is alive
The habitat that supplies everything needed for a species or an organism to survive
The largest population that an area can support
Another name for a consumer that needs to eat food for its energy
is broken down into carbon dioxide and water in a process which uses oxygen
A cool forest biome in the Northern Hemisphere
The study of how living things interact with one another and their environment
An animal that is hunted, killed and eaten by a predator
An ecosystem that forms due to the low level of rainfall it receives each year
Another name for a producer that makes its own food
Down
Many food chains put together to show how energy flows through the ecosystem
The lowest level of organization Ecological or environment
A plant and animal community that covers a large part of the Earth
The breaking down of products into raw materials that can be used to make new products
Tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream
A living organism on which a parasite lives
A group of organisms living together in a certain area
All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions
Plant cells make food from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
The animal life in an area
This biomes are dominated by trees that lose their leaves each year.
The part of the ecosystem that is not alive
An organism that survives by eating producers or other consumers in its ecosystem
The movement of carbon from the environment into living things and back into the environment
Organisms compete for the limited number of biotic and abiotic factors
Mild
An organism that eats only plants
An organism that lives in or one another organism (called the host)
The upper layer or habitat zone, formed by mature tree crowns
rolling plain with few trees and permanently frozen ground