Wildlife Ecology Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• biotic factors : the living components of an environment, including plants, animals, and microorganisms.
• autotroph : an organism that can produce its own food using light or chemical energy (e.g, plants, certain bacteria).
• biosphere : the portion of earth that supports life, including land, water, and atmosphere.
• ecosystem : an ecosystem is a community of plants, animals and smaller organisms that live, feed, reproduce and interact in the same area or environment.
• community : a collection of populations of different species that interact in a shared environment.
• heterotroph : an organism that cannot produce its own food and relies on consuming other organisms for energy (e.g, animals, fungi).
• producer : an organism that produces its own food through processes like photosynthesis (e.g, plants, algae).
• consumer : an organism that obtains its energy by feeding on other organisms.
• deme : a local population of organisms of the same species that interbreed and share a specific geographic area.
• population : a group of individuals of the same species living in the same area at the same time.
• trophic level : the position an organism occupies in a food chain, such as primary producer.
• abiotic factors : the non-living components of an environment, such as temperature, sunlight, and soil.