Interactions of Life Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• population: a group of organisms of a species in an area
• community: all the populations in an area at the same time
• ecosystem: all the living and nonliving things in an area acting together
• biotic factor: living or once-living part of an ecosystem
• abiotic factor: nonliving part of an ecosystem
• symbiosis: act of living together
• mutualism: both organisms benefit
• commensalism: one organism benefits, other is unaffected
• parasitism: one organism causes harm to another by living in it or on it
• host: organism that a parasite lives in or on
• herbivore: eats only plants
• carnivore: eats other animals
• omnivore: eats plants and animals
• food chain: shows the path of energy from organism to organism
• food web: many overlapping food chains linked together