A Halloween Ecosystem

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Sweet treat made from sugar (5)
  2. 5. The status of an organism within its environment and community (5)
  3. 7. Someone who attacks in search of booty (7)
  4. 8. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs (7)
  5. 9. The attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball (plural) (8)
  6. 11. A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal (9)
  7. 12. A tract of land used for burials (8)
  8. 14. The number of inhabitants in a given place (10)
  9. 15. A mental representation of some haunting experience (plural) (6)

Down

  1. 1. Tiny single-celled living things, some of which cause illness (8)
  2. 2. The taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools (5)
  3. 3. Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful (7)
  4. 6. A female sorcerer or magician (plural) (7)
  5. 10. A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment (9)
  6. 13. A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings (plural) (7)