Ecology Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- organism: an individual living thing composed of one or more cells
- food web: the overlapping of food chains in an ecosystem
- food chain: energy links between different organisms in an ecosystem
- biome: a major ecological community occupying a large geographic region
- decomposer: organism that breaks down chemical compounds made by living things
- producer: organism that can produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis
- ecosystem: a community of organisms in an environment
- biosphere: the part of the earth in which life can exist
- omnivore: organism that consumes both plant and animal tissue
- ecology : the study of the relationships and interactions of living things with their environment
- competition: the interaction between two organisms that require the same resource
- predator: animals that hunt for other living animals
- community: all living components of an ecosystem
- consumer: organism that must obtain nutrients and energy from eating other organisms
- population: a group of organisms of the same species living in an ecosystem
- prey: the animal hunted by other animals
- habitat: the place organisms live
- species: very similar organism that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring
- extinction: the complete destruction of every member of a species
- herbivore: organism that consumes only plant tissue
