environment Crossword Puzzles
Evolution 2021-03-25
Across
- death of last individual in species.
- structures that are similar in unrelated organisms.
- reduced genetic diversity.
- Genetic information from two different sexes
- nucleus surrounded by cell membrane.
- changes according to environment.
- non-related organisms evolving similar traits.
- The biological concept of reproductive success
- differences between individuals or population.
Down
- body part that help fit into environment.
- changes in behavior based on environment
- common ancestor with accumulate differences
- different survival and reproduction based off phenotype
- transfer of genetic information from population to population
- made of bacteria and archaea
- quick change in population due to environmental changes.
- structures with no function and are parts from the past.
- Doesn't change number of chromosomes when reproducing.
- formation of new species in evolution.
- variation of different genotypes
20 Clues: reduced genetic diversity. • made of bacteria and archaea • variation of different genotypes • changes according to environment. • death of last individual in species. • nucleus surrounded by cell membrane. • formation of new species in evolution. • changes in behavior based on environment • body part that help fit into environment. • ...
unit 8 biology 2022-03-15
Across
- organism makes its own food
- both organisms benefit
- branch of biology that deals with the relationships of organisms
- community of interacting organisms
- defines an organisms role in an environment
- natural home or environment of an organism
- diet consists only of meat
- interlocking food chains
- eat plants
- animal that feeds off dead material
- chart that shows relationship between species
- a large collection of flora and fauna
- series of organisms that depend on each other for food
Down
- organism gets nutrients from other things
- one organism benefits the other stays the same
- a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
- breaks down organic material
- the most amount of animals an ecosystem can maintain
- eat to get energy
- eat plants and animals
20 Clues: eat plants • eat to get energy • both organisms benefit • eat plants and animals • interlocking food chains • diet consists only of meat • organism makes its own food • breaks down organic material • community of interacting organisms • animal that feeds off dead material • a large collection of flora and fauna • organism gets nutrients from other things • ...
Ecology Part 1 2024-02-27
Across
- environment that is home to an organism
- Restricts growth of population
- the mass of living biological organisms
- system of interaction of environment and organisms
- organisms that make their own food
- breaks down dead organic material
- nonnative organisms spreading in environment
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- living things in an ecosystem
- biological variation of a species
- nutrients and energy is passed between organisms
- non-living things in an ecosystem
- inborn impulse
- 10% of energy given to levels above it
- organism that doesn't make its own food
- organism helps define entire ecosystem
- organism kills and eats another organism
- animal that is hunted or killed for food
- rivalry over resources between organisms
- all food chains of an ecosystem
- variety of life in an ecosystem
20 Clues: inborn impulse • living things in an ecosystem • Restricts growth of population • all food chains of an ecosystem • variety of life in an ecosystem • biological variation of a species • non-living things in an ecosystem • breaks down dead organic material • organisms that make their own food • 10% of energy given to levels above it • organism helps define entire ecosystem • ...
Natural Selection and Evolution 2022-11-17
Across
- increase the CO2 in the atmosphere
- process of organisms changing over time
- quality based on genetics
- creates, changes, or destroys a habitat
- both species benefit from each other
- adjusting to an environment
- traits that allow for survival pass on
- increases the stability of environment
Down
- increase in temperature on the planet
- differences in a population
- came up with natural selection
- holds the environment together
- when an entire species dies out
- fighting for basic needs
- controls the prey
15 Clues: controls the prey • fighting for basic needs • quality based on genetics • differences in a population • adjusting to an environment • came up with natural selection • holds the environment together • when an entire species dies out • increase the CO2 in the atmosphere • both species benefit from each other • increase in temperature on the planet • ...
Air and Water Quality 2025-11-26
Across
- : Approach stopping pollution at source
- : Total greenhouse gas emissions from activity
- : Stages from raw material to disposal
- : Energy from inexhaustible sources (adj.)
- : Protection of natural resources
- : Variety of life in ecosystem
- : Meeting needs without compromising future (adj.)
- : Liquid released to water or sewer
- : Global alteration from greenhouse gases
Down
- : Element of activity interacting with environment
- : Contamination harming air water or land
- : Gases released to atmosphere
- : Change to environment from an aspect
- : Community of organisms and environment
- : Environmental management system (abbr.)
15 Clues: : Gases released to atmosphere • : Variety of life in ecosystem • : Protection of natural resources • : Liquid released to water or sewer • : Stages from raw material to disposal • : Change to environment from an aspect • : Approach stopping pollution at source • : Community of organisms and environment • : Contamination harming air water or land • ...
Climate and Sustatinability 2025-11-26
Across
- : Approach stopping pollution at source
- : Total greenhouse gas emissions from activity
- : Stages from raw material to disposal
- : Energy from inexhaustible sources (adj.)
- : Protection of natural resources
- : Variety of life in ecosystem
- : Meeting needs without compromising future (adj.)
- : Liquid released to water or sewer
- : Global alteration from greenhouse gases
Down
- : Element of activity interacting with environment
- : Contamination harming air water or land
- : Gases released to atmosphere
- : Change to environment from an aspect
- : Community of organisms and environment
- : Environmental management system (abbr.)
15 Clues: : Gases released to atmosphere • : Variety of life in ecosystem • : Protection of natural resources • : Liquid released to water or sewer • : Stages from raw material to disposal • : Change to environment from an aspect • : Approach stopping pollution at source • : Community of organisms and environment • : Contamination harming air water or land • ...
Preservation of ecosystems 2022-02-25
Across
- involving questions of right and wrong
- prevention of wasteful use of a resource
- A example of an NGO that helps preserve the environment
- the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat, a high level of which is usually considered to be important and desirable.
- the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- substances created by plants and animals that are poisonous to humans.
Down
- is the introduction of harmful materials into the environment.
- the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
- a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
- a living thing
- a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth
- maintain (something) in its original or existing state
- non governmental organization
- a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
14 Clues: a living thing • non governmental organization • involving questions of right and wrong • prevention of wasteful use of a resource • maintain (something) in its original or existing state • a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth • A example of an NGO that helps preserve the environment • is the introduction of harmful materials into the environment. • ...
Preservation of ecosystems 2022-02-25
Across
- involving questions of right and wrong
- prevention of wasteful use of a resource
- A example of an NGO that helps preserve the environment
- the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat, a high level of which is usually considered to be important and desirable.
- the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- substances created by plants and animals that are poisonous to humans.
Down
- is the introduction of harmful materials into the environment.
- the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
- a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
- a living thing
- a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth
- maintain (something) in its original or existing state
- non governmental organization
- a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
14 Clues: a living thing • non governmental organization • involving questions of right and wrong • prevention of wasteful use of a resource • maintain (something) in its original or existing state • a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth • A example of an NGO that helps preserve the environment • is the introduction of harmful materials into the environment. • ...
Ecology Recap 2017-07-26
Across
- The various populations in a community live __________.
- This group of organisms obtains energy from breaking down dead organisms
- The percentage of energy lost as it is transferred from one trophic level to the next trophic level.
- There are three ecological pyramids: the pyramid of numbers, the pyramid of energy and the pyramid of __________.
- The environment is made of abiotic and __________ components.
- Energy is passed from one trophic level to another via this process.
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- This group of organisms convert light energy from the Sun into chemical energy.
- Energy is released as __________ as it flows through the environment.
- The main energy source in the ecosystem.
- A process in which carbon from living things are released into the environment.
- A food web is made of __________ food chains.
- A community together with its abiotic environment
- Animals that feed on plants are __________ consumers.
- The study of interactions of organisms with one another, as well as with their environment.
14 Clues: The main energy source in the ecosystem. • A food web is made of __________ food chains. • A community together with its abiotic environment • Animals that feed on plants are __________ consumers. • The various populations in a community live __________. • The environment is made of abiotic and __________ components. • ...
Ecosystem Crossword 2023-04-12
Across
- the plant life in an environment
- Populations of different organisms living in an environment
- consists of ponds and lakes, streams and rivers, and wetlands; low salt content
- a large scale ecosystem such as desert, forests, grasslands, tundra, aquatic or marine
- located near the equator; areas that get a large amount of rainfall annually and is home to a variety of plants and animals
- a trait or characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment
- relating to water
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- made up of the interaction of all living and non-living things in an environment
- a place with very little rainfall
- large, flat areas covered with grasses
- the place where an organism lives in an ecosystem
- relationships between living organisms or between living and nonliving things
- The role or job of an organism or population in the environment
- primarily made up of oceans; contains large amounts of salt water
14 Clues: relating to water • the plant life in an environment • a place with very little rainfall • large, flat areas covered with grasses • the place where an organism lives in an ecosystem • Populations of different organisms living in an environment • The role or job of an organism or population in the environment • ...
THE ENVIRONMENT 2021-05-23
Across
- living, land and aquatic creatures in the air
- Water scarcity due to temporary imbalance in the amount of moisture in a region
- reusable material
- a gas that is toxic
- pollution caused by humans, animals and vehicles
Down
- natural disaster causing loss of life and property
- synonym of the surroundings
- the only planet with life
- house of animals
9 Clues: house of animals • reusable material • a gas that is toxic • the only planet with life • synonym of the surroundings • living, land and aquatic creatures in the air • pollution caused by humans, animals and vehicles • natural disaster causing loss of life and property • Water scarcity due to temporary imbalance in the amount of moisture in a region
Environment Vocabulary 2021-07-13
Across
- The covering or submerging of normally dry land with a large amount of water.
- An unusual, often destructive rise in sea level above normal high-tide level in a coastal area, often during a storm.
- A mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
Down
- A system of winds rotating with an anticlockwise or clockwise circulation
- When the forest catches fire.
- A prolonged period of abnormally hot weather.
- Fog or haze intensified by smoke or other atmospheric pollutants.
- A severe snowstorm with high winds.
- A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water
9 Clues: When the forest catches fire. • A severe snowstorm with high winds. • A prolonged period of abnormally hot weather. • Fog or haze intensified by smoke or other atmospheric pollutants. • A system of winds rotating with an anticlockwise or clockwise circulation • The covering or submerging of normally dry land with a large amount of water. • ...
Financial Environment 2022-10-25
Across
- exchange of goods or services for other goods or services without using money
- area where all business transactions are conducted
- taken if the higher amount of money is needed than owned
- outflows of the company related to buying
Down
- currency commonly used in USA
- money coming to the company
- example of financial intermediary
- e.g. VAT
- the value of the shares issued by a company
9 Clues: e.g. VAT • money coming to the company • currency commonly used in USA • example of financial intermediary • outflows of the company related to buying • the value of the shares issued by a company • area where all business transactions are conducted • taken if the higher amount of money is needed than owned • ...
The Environment 2022-05-31
Across
- not agreed to or controversial
- extremely dry and desert-like
- any form of water that falls from clouds to the ground
- seeding (2- 5,7) technique used to make it rain or snow
Down
- stopping an action or process from occurring
- having to do with living things and their environments
- done on purpose or deliberately
- antagonistic, harmful, or unfavourable
- bits of ice that fall from the sky as rain does
9 Clues: extremely dry and desert-like • not agreed to or controversial • done on purpose or deliberately • antagonistic, harmful, or unfavourable • stopping an action or process from occurring • bits of ice that fall from the sky as rain does • having to do with living things and their environments • any form of water that falls from clouds to the ground • ...
Workplace Environment 2022-11-16
Across
- uninvited conduct toward a person
- A few days each year an employee can leave for personal reasons
- an arrangement where employees work away from the business site
- location, physical conditions, and emotional atmosphere
- when an individual is treated unfairly based on race, gender,religion or anything else
Down
- an arrangement where two part time employees handle the responsibilities of a single full time employee
- Time off work for family reasons
- A policy allowing employees to adjust work schedules
- designing things to make them more efficient and safe
9 Clues: Time off work for family reasons • uninvited conduct toward a person • A policy allowing employees to adjust work schedules • designing things to make them more efficient and safe • location, physical conditions, and emotional atmosphere • A few days each year an employee can leave for personal reasons • ...
The Environment 2022-11-30
Across
- the earth is 70% made up out of this.
- all animals (including humans) need this in order for their bodies to function properly.
- a type of plastic that decomposes into the earth.
- the third planet from the sun
- a type of plant that absorbs CO2 and produces oxygen.
Down
- a barren place in which it doesn't rain often
- a community of organisms that rely on eachother to survive.
- a place in which an animal lives in.
- the long term shirt in climate and weather patterns.
9 Clues: the third planet from the sun • a place in which an animal lives in. • the earth is 70% made up out of this. • a barren place in which it doesn't rain often • a type of plastic that decomposes into the earth. • the long term shirt in climate and weather patterns. • a type of plant that absorbs CO2 and produces oxygen. • ...
External environment 2023-01-12
Across
- the use of computers and IT increasing business efficiency
- a useful search engine for businesses
- a very popular social media platform
- anything outside the business's control
Down
- the process of constructing more land and buildings on rural land
- the government can affect what a business does
- laws the governments make to regulate businesses
- businesses are aware of their operations on this
- the use of media platforms such as Facebook
9 Clues: a very popular social media platform • a useful search engine for businesses • anything outside the business's control • the use of media platforms such as Facebook • the government can affect what a business does • laws the governments make to regulate businesses • businesses are aware of their operations on this • ...
The environment! 2019-10-10
9 Clues: It reduces_____. • It conserves_____. • It avoids ______ change. • Is the planting of trees. • It protects _____ resources. • It saves the _____ environment. • water, It means using less water. • It converts waste materials into new materials. • pollution, It reduces, eliminates and prevents contamination.
The Environment 2021-03-15
9 Clues: we ride them • it hates cats • it is a reptile • part of the geosphere • part of the hydrosphere • it is very hot and burns things • it is on the top of the food chain • it has the second most iron in its body • the physical world including plants and animals.
The Environment 2021-03-15
9 Clues: it hates cats • it is a reptile • part of the geosphere • part of the hydrosphere • we ride them and race them • it is very hot and burns things • it is on the top of the food chain • it has the second most iron in its body • the physical world including plants and animals.
Environment Vocabulary 2021-03-26
9 Clues: no danger • to cause harm • the act of helping • destruction//to hurt • the act of supporting • the act of protecting • harmful chemicals in the environment • to put someone or something in danger • to convert waste into reusable material
The Environment 2021-10-12
9 Clues: Global warming • big spirals of wind • Conserving resources • Losing its leaves annual • catching more fish then you should • pescatarians eat this type of meat • Cutting down trees for industrial purpose • huge coastal storms that are often in Florida • a huge towering wave that can start way out in the ocean
Business Environment 2015-01-08
Across
- which extract natural resources/Primary sector
- Career/Moon Lighting
- and communication Network/ Infrastructure
- business which controls the market for a product/Monopoly
- Advertisement/ Teaser
- amount granted to a business to help them keep trading/Subsidy
Down
- of producing large quantities of output/Economies of Scale
- or services essential for Survival/Needs
- person who uses goods and services/ Consumer
- Communication/Grapevine
10 Clues: Career/Moon Lighting • Advertisement/ Teaser • Communication/Grapevine • or services essential for Survival/Needs • and communication Network/ Infrastructure • person who uses goods and services/ Consumer • which extract natural resources/Primary sector • business which controls the market for a product/Monopoly • of producing large quantities of output/Economies of Scale • ...
Crossword-Environment 2015-11-02
Across
- warming an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere
- pollution pollution of the water in rivers and lakes
- effect warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere
- the totality of surrounding conditions
- that can be renewed or extended
- pollution annoying and potentially harmful environmental noise
Down
- undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities
- pollution pollution of the atmosphere
- gas a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation
- pollution annoying and potentially harmful environmental noise
- the 3rd planet from the sun
11 Clues: the 3rd planet from the sun • that can be renewed or extended • pollution pollution of the atmosphere • the totality of surrounding conditions • pollution pollution of the water in rivers and lakes • pollution annoying and potentially harmful environmental noise • pollution annoying and potentially harmful environmental noise • ...
Spanish Environment 2022-03-25
ENVIRONMENT & RECYCLING 2022-03-21
Across
- People produce lots of this every day.
- We should use re-...... batteries.
- There is air, water, soil, noise ....
- Coca Cola cans are made of this material.
- You throw litter in them.
Down
- My bottle is made of this material.
- I use such bags for the supermarket.
- Use something again
- Find a ..... to a problem
9 Clues: Use something again • Find a ..... to a problem • You throw litter in them. • We should use re-...... batteries. • My bottle is made of this material. • I use such bags for the supermarket. • There is air, water, soil, noise .... • People produce lots of this every day. • Coca Cola cans are made of this material.
The environment 2022-03-10
Across
- Catching too many fish in an area of the sea.
- The mark made by a person's or animal's foot.
- Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.
Down
- Solid, light, black and very combustible matter.
- Undomesticated animal species.
- The cutting down of trees in a large area, or the destruction of forests by people.
- Said of a substance: That it can be degraded by biological action.
- Where the community lives.
- The introduction of contaminants into the natural Environment that cause adverse change.
9 Clues: Where the community lives. • Undomesticated animal species. • Catching too many fish in an area of the sea. • The mark made by a person's or animal's foot. • Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. • Solid, light, black and very combustible matter. • Said of a substance: That it can be degraded by biological action. • ...
ENVIRONMENT CROSSWORD 2021-12-02
Across
- a place that people live
- the most common species on the planet
- the process of communication and trade made global
- the ideas and customs of
- the customer
Down
- the exchange of goods and/or services
- the difference in time in different places
- circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded
- what belief people have
9 Clues: the customer • what belief people have • a place that people live • the ideas and customs of • the exchange of goods and/or services • the most common species on the planet • the difference in time in different places • the process of communication and trade made global • circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded
Environment / Economy 2022-02-25
Across
- the action of making or manufacturing from components or raw materials
- a stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively
- the action of making use of and benefiting from resources.
- the act, state, or right of possessing something
- a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold
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- eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process.
- the using up of a resource.
- capable of being renewed.
- the action or process of converting waste into reusable material.
9 Clues: capable of being renewed. • the using up of a resource. • the act, state, or right of possessing something • the action of making use of and benefiting from resources. • the action or process of converting waste into reusable material. • the action of making or manufacturing from components or raw materials • ...
The environment 2022-02-17
Across
- When all animals of a species have died
- (energy/water) use less resources in your daily life
- find new ways to use things instead of putting them in the garbage
- destroying forests to gather materials like wood
Down
- turn garbage into something useful
- when many animals of a species have died
- create less garbage
- (trash) place different types of trash into different bins
- unwanted or unusable garbage
9 Clues: create less garbage • unwanted or unusable garbage • turn garbage into something useful • When all animals of a species have died • when many animals of a species have died • destroying forests to gather materials like wood • (energy/water) use less resources in your daily life • (trash) place different types of trash into different bins • ...
COASTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023-08-22
Across
- a headland or a promontory of large size extending into a body of water
- a steep rock face, especially at the edge of the sea.
- the area of land stretching along any large body of water
- the movement of water molecules within the ocean,
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- a tree or shrub that grows in chiefly tropical coastal swamps
- an area of sand and/or small stones near the lake or the sea
- regular movements in the sea surface
- border between the land and the sea
- a broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inward.
9 Clues: border between the land and the sea • regular movements in the sea surface • the movement of water molecules within the ocean, • a steep rock face, especially at the edge of the sea. • a broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inward. • the area of land stretching along any large body of water • an area of sand and/or small stones near the lake or the sea • ...
THE ENVIRONMENT 2024-04-16
Across
- types of creatures that have shells
- A large number of animals, people, etc.
- A group of specific living creatures
- Living creature mostly found in sand at the beach
- Another word for home used for living creatures
Down
- , Material that people dump in the ocean
- Something that hunts down something else for food.
- a large body of water that
- People collect these when they go to the beach
9 Clues: a large body of water that • types of creatures that have shells • A group of specific living creatures • A large number of animals, people, etc. • , Material that people dump in the ocean • People collect these when they go to the beach • Another word for home used for living creatures • Living creature mostly found in sand at the beach • ...
The environment 2024-11-23
Across
- Rubbish that is thrown in public places.
- To prevent something from being wasted, like saving energy or water.
- A place to store or hold items.
- To put trees in the ground to help the environment.
Down
- Something that harms the environment, like chemicals in the air or water.
- To convert waste into reusable material.
- To discard or get rid of something you don't need anymore.
- Material used to produce energy for devices, lights, and appliances.
- Power. A method of producing energy from the sun's rays.
9 Clues: A place to store or hold items. • To convert waste into reusable material. • Rubbish that is thrown in public places. • To put trees in the ground to help the environment. • Power. A method of producing energy from the sun's rays. • To discard or get rid of something you don't need anymore. • Material used to produce energy for devices, lights, and appliances. • ...
My Environment 2025-04-22
Working Environment 2025-04-07
Across
- Don't _____________ me! I am busy!
- You need them in your ears when you want to sleep and it's noisy
- I should prepare a _________ to organize my plans for today
- The verticle line (אנכי) in a chart
- We can't meet today because my ___________ is very busy
- I have a __________ and we share the same room in college
Down
- If you want to listen to music privately, use them
- It makes you lose concentration
- Please cleanthe desk. I need a clean _________ to work on.
9 Clues: It makes you lose concentration • Don't _____________ me! I am busy! • The verticle line (אנכי) in a chart • If you want to listen to music privately, use them • We can't meet today because my ___________ is very busy • I have a __________ and we share the same room in college • Please cleanthe desk. I need a clean _________ to work on. • ...
Earth Environment 2025-06-27
Across
- This is what we call the millions of tiny living things in the water
- Algae blooms go away during this season
- When there is too much algae taking over, we call this
- Gardeners often use this
Down
- This from humans & pets is full of nutrients that help plants grow
- This is soaked into the ground or into storm drains
- Season algae blooms come back
- a gas plants release & humans need to survive
- Algae thrives in this
9 Clues: Algae thrives in this • Gardeners often use this • Season algae blooms come back • Algae blooms go away during this season • a gas plants release & humans need to survive • This is soaked into the ground or into storm drains • When there is too much algae taking over, we call this • This from humans & pets is full of nutrients that help plants grow • ...
Environment Vocab 2026-03-25
Across
- Using resources in a way that protects them so they be used in the future
- Warming The increase in Earth's temperature over time
- catch or killing too many animals so they Pollution cannot recover
- Something people usefrom nature to survive.
Down
- When more cities,causing cities to grow larger
- The cutting down of a large area of trees and forests.
- Harmful substances that make air, water or dirty land
- gases released into the air, often from vehicles
- A layer of gas in eath's atmosphere that protects living things from suns Harmful rays
9 Clues: Something people usefrom nature to survive. • When more cities,causing cities to grow larger • gases released into the air, often from vehicles • Harmful substances that make air, water or dirty land • The cutting down of a large area of trees and forests. • Warming The increase in Earth's temperature over time • ...
Ecology 2015-03-30
Across
- a series of predictable and orderly changes within an ecosystem over time
- chemical or physical factor that limits the existence, growth, abundance, or distribution of an individual organism or a population
- a term that describes an organism associated with a land environment
- an organism that obtains nutrients by consuming dead and decaying organic matter which allows nutrients to be accessible to other organisms
- the study of the relationships between organism and their interactions with the environment
- the movement of abiotic factors between the living and nonliving components within ecosystems; also known as nutrient cycles (water cycle, carbon cycle, oxygen cycle and nitrogen cycle)
- the lowest taxonomic level of biological classification consisting of organisms capable of reproduction that results in fertile offspring
- the study of energy flow (energy transformations) into and within living systems
- an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms or their remains
- a complex arrangement of interrelated food chains illustrating the flow of energy between interdependent organisms
- a process in which energy changes form one form to another form while some of the energy is lost to the environment
- a term that describes a living or once-living organism in an ecosystem
- when individuals or groups of organisms compete for similar resources such as territory, mates, water and food in the same environment
- a model that illustrates the biomass productivity at multiple trophic levels in a given ecosystem
- an area that provides an organism with its basic needs for survival
- a term that describe a nonliving factor in an ecosystem
- the study of short- and long-term changes in the number of individuals for a given population, as affected by birth, death, immigration and emigration
- a set of interacting or interdependent components, real or abstract, that form an integrated whole. An open system is able to interact with its environment. A closed system is isolated from its environment.
- a term that describes an organism associated with a water environment
- a group of individuals of the same species living in a specific geographical area and reproducing
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- the artificial cultivation of food, fiber, and other goods by the systematic growing and harvesting of various organisms
- a species normally living outside a distribution range that has been introduced through either deliberate of accidental human activity; also can be know as introduced, invasive, alien, nonindigenous, or exotic
- a process typically caused by the genetic isolation from a main population resulting in a new genetically distinct species
- a system composed of organisms and nonliving components of an environment
- the zone of life on Earth; sum total of all ecosystems on Earth
- a relationship between two organisms (mutualism, in which both species benefit; parasitism , in which one organism benefits and the other organism is harmed; and commensalism, in which one organism benefits and the other organism does not benefit or is not harmed
- a species that is found in its originating location and is generally restricted to that geographic area
- different populations of organisms interacting in a shared environment
- the total surrounding of an organism or a group of organisms
- the position of an organism in relation to the flow of energy and inorganic nutrients through an ecosystem (producer, consumer, decomposer)
- an organism that uses a primary energy source to conduct photosynthesis or chemosynthesis
- a simplified path illustrating the passing of potential chemical energy (food) from one organism to another organism
- a large area or geographical region with distinct plant and animal groups adapted to that environment
33 Clues: a term that describe a nonliving factor in an ecosystem • the total surrounding of an organism or a group of organisms • the zone of life on Earth; sum total of all ecosystems on Earth • an area that provides an organism with its basic needs for survival • a term that describes an organism associated with a land environment • ...
Survey Of Life 2012-09-16
Across
- Inherated charactertics that imporve an organisms ability to survive in a particular environment
- Living organism
- InternalStability maintained by the body
- An observation using words
- An Organism that obtains food by eating other animals
- An observation using numbers
- Information recorded about structures by using your senses
- The study of life
- Organisms that make their own food
- Nonliving Conditions in an environment
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- All of a cells chemical process
- How a cell is organized
- A process organisms go through in order to reproduce
- A Logical conclusion bassed on an observation
- Cells that have a nucleus
- Cells without a nucleus
- Any Livinf part of an environment
- Basic unit of life
18 Clues: Living organism • The study of life • Basic unit of life • How a cell is organized • Cells without a nucleus • Cells that have a nucleus • An observation using words • An observation using numbers • All of a cells chemical process • Any Livinf part of an environment • Organisms that make their own food • Nonliving Conditions in an environment • ...
Ecology Crossword 2022-12-10
Across
- of or relating to living organisms
- a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting an area
- study of the relations of organisms to their environment
- the type of environment in which an organism normally lives
- an organism capable of synthesizing its own food
- an organism that feeds on complex organic substances
- number of species living within an ecosystem
- status or place of an organism within its environment
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- second trophic level, animals that eat plants or other primary producer
- organisms interacting with their physical environment
- organisms that first capture energy and that make their own food (plants).
- both herbivores and carnivores
- third trophic level, animals that eat herbivores
- of or relating to nutrition or feeding
- the physical, or non-living aspects of a habitat.
- organisms that consume producers for food (animals).
16 Clues: both herbivores and carnivores • of or relating to living organisms • of or relating to nutrition or feeding • number of species living within an ecosystem • third trophic level, animals that eat herbivores • an organism capable of synthesizing its own food • the physical, or non-living aspects of a habitat. • an organism that feeds on complex organic substances • ...
Environmental Systems Vocab 2021-09-03
Across
- consumer who eats both plants and animals
- a lot
- creates organic material
- level animals position in food web, chain, pyramid
- a living plant of animal
- direct involvement
- living
- eats primary consumer
- to die
- consumer who only eats meat
- decomposes dead organisms
- eats dead consumers
- consumes (eats) other organisms
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- amount of a species in a environment
- non-living
- little to none
- does not produce organic material
- do well
- consumer that is bottom of the food chain
- produces its own food
- consumer who only eats plants
- a organisms role in an environment
- multiple populations living and working together
- a community of organisms and their environment
- a series of connected food chains
- a chain of animals transferring energy
26 Clues: a lot • living • to die • do well • non-living • little to none • direct involvement • eats dead consumers • produces its own food • eats primary consumer • creates organic material • a living plant of animal • decomposes dead organisms • consumer who only eats meat • consumer who only eats plants • consumes (eats) other organisms • does not produce organic material • ...
Environmental English 2022-03-29
Across
- a person that works for political or social change
- the planet which we live on
- a community of plants and animals
- the mark your life leaves on the environment
- when companies lie about sustainibility
- a person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment
- harmful gases created by industry
- the natural world
- short way to refer to the earth
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- fair and equal treatment
- variety of plants and animals
- environmentaly friendly
- a demonstration against something
- trash or harmful contamination
- cutting down too many trees
- plants animals and the landscape
- how the earth is changing due to human activity
- the theory that the earth is getting hotter
- when all of a species dies
- a person that publicly supports something
20 Clues: the natural world • environmentaly friendly • fair and equal treatment • when all of a species dies • the planet which we live on • cutting down too many trees • variety of plants and animals • trash or harmful contamination • short way to refer to the earth • plants animals and the landscape • a demonstration against something • a community of plants and animals • ...
Chapter 12 Crossword 2016-11-01
Across
- Sequencing developmental tasks
- Mild form of time-out
- Modeling
- Physical assistance
- Removal of a positive event
- Positive reinforcement
- Independent of environmental influence
- Going through the motions
- Supports a child's efforts
- Feelings of pleasure
- Consequences of a person's behavior
- Specifically what they are doing well
- Removal of an unpleasant consequence
Down
- Extreme form of withdrawing
- Inside the individual
- Changing attention to a better view
- Determined by an adult
- Dominant role of environment
- Increase of a particular response
- Maintains the behavior it follows
- Cannot occur together
- Arrangement to produce specified changes
- Arranging classroom environment
- Specific to individuals
- viewing in learning environment
- Occur without intervention
- Reducing prompts
- Errors and successes are self-evident
- Observational learning
29 Clues: Modeling • Reducing prompts • Physical assistance • Feelings of pleasure • Inside the individual • Mild form of time-out • Cannot occur together • Determined by an adult • Positive reinforcement • Observational learning • Specific to individuals • Going through the motions • Supports a child's efforts • Occur without intervention • Extreme form of withdrawing • Removal of a positive event • ...
Rainforest Cross Word 2014-09-16
Across
- An activity made for tourists.
- A plant that grows on trees.
- Digging the ground for minerals.
- People of the land.
- A land of green and rain.
- A plant that slowly climbs a tree closer and closer to the sunlight.
- Cutting down trees for wood.
- Wild fauna and/or flora.
- Clearing forest area for farm land.
- Scientific word for plants.
- A species of flora that looks like a palm (from a palm tree).
Down
- Something that is bad for the environment.
- A species of this is a mushroom or a toad stool.
- Natural surroundings.
- Natural environment.
- A plant that strangles trees.
- This rainforest is in Queensland.
- People who take care of the rainforest are _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
- brown sticks with green vegetation on them.
- Scientific for for animals.
20 Clues: People of the land. • Natural environment. • Natural surroundings. • Wild fauna and/or flora. • A land of green and rain. • Scientific for for animals. • Scientific word for plants. • A plant that grows on trees. • Cutting down trees for wood. • A plant that strangles trees. • An activity made for tourists. • Digging the ground for minerals. • This rainforest is in Queensland. • ...
April Crossword 2024-03-18
Across
- April’s Latin name
- Seeded fruit
- How many million metric tons of plastic go into the ocean annually
- Collection of water
- Little bit of rainfall
- Weather phenomenon that brings “May flowers”
- How many months it takes vanilla to grow
- These mythical creatures are afraid of humans
- Pretty winged insect
- Colors of the rainbow
- April is sacred to ____
- First “R” way to help the environment
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- April is the _____ month
- It was just a ___
- First sign of the zodiac
- World’s most expensive spice
- Third “R” way to help the environment
- God of vegetable gardens
- Mother ____
- April 1st
- Second sign of the zodiac
- Haha!
- A bird’s home
- Something to fly this season
- Second “R” way to help the environment
25 Clues: Haha! • April 1st • Mother ____ • Seeded fruit • A bird’s home • It was just a ___ • April’s Latin name • Collection of water • Pretty winged insect • Colors of the rainbow • Little bit of rainfall • April is sacred to ____ • April is the _____ month • First sign of the zodiac • God of vegetable gardens • Second sign of the zodiac • World’s most expensive spice • Something to fly this season • ...
Communicating about the Environment 2025-04-06
Across
- Variety of life in an ecosystem
- A group of organisms capable of interbreeding
- Water that is not salty
- The layer of gases surrounding Earth
- To set free or allow to escape
- To keep safe from harm or danger
- A community of living organisms and their environment
- Animals and plants living in the wild
- A large celestial body orbiting a star
- Physical damage or injury
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- To lessen the amount or intensity
- Area of land drained by a river and its tributaries
- To use again
- Long-term weather patterns in a region
- Surroundings in which organisms live
- Protection and preservation of natural resources
- Natural home or environment of an organism
- To process materials for reuse
- Relating to the entire world
- Our home planet
20 Clues: To use again • Our home planet • Water that is not salty • Physical damage or injury • Relating to the entire world • To set free or allow to escape • To process materials for reuse • Variety of life in an ecosystem • To keep safe from harm or danger • To lessen the amount or intensity • The layer of gases surrounding Earth • Surroundings in which organisms live • ...
Ecology 2026-03-03
Across
- Abiotic factors are the non-living parts of an environment (e.g., sunlight, temperature, water). Bionic factors are the living parts of an environment
- Environmental conditions that restrictions the growth, abundance, or distribution of an organism or a population in a specific ecosystem.
- A state of equilibrium within an ecosystem where the various components and processes are stable and interact harmoniously.
- An animal that hunts and feeds on other animals.
- The maximum population size of a species that an environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment.
- An organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms.
- In ecology, the approximate amount of energy that is transferred from one tropic level to the next.
- A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
- The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- The interaction between organisms or species in which both are harmed.
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- An organism that produces its own food through photosynthesis or chemo synthesis.
- A species that is not native to a specific ecosystem and whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.
- The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
- The total mass of organisms in a given area or volume.
- An animal that is hunted and killed by another for food.
- The movement of energy from one object or substance to another.
- A graphical model showing the flow of energy from one tropic level to the next in an ecosystem.
- A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
- The hierarchical levels in a food chain, comprising organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain.
20 Clues: An animal that hunts and feeds on other animals. • The total mass of organisms in a given area or volume. • An animal that is hunted and killed by another for food. • An organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms. • A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains. • The movement of energy from one object or substance to another. • ...
Ecology definitions 2021-04-27
Across
- A square tool used in sampling
- An animal that consumes another animal
- The simplest way of showing feeding relationships
- An organism that is able to produce its own food by photosynthesis
- When two organisms both use or consume the same resource
- The amount of variation shown by organisms in an ecosystem
- The study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment
- All of the living organisms in an ecosystem
- An organism that eats plants
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- The number of organisms of a particular species in an area
- The different levels in a food chain
- The place where an organism lives
- An animal that gets eaten by another animal
- A combination of different food chains in an ecosystem, showing many different relationships
- An organism that eats meat
- A community of living organisms and the non-living factors in the environment
- The non-living factors in an environment (eg: water and light)
- An organism that relies on eating other organisms for energy
- The living factors in an environment
19 Clues: An organism that eats meat • An organism that eats plants • A square tool used in sampling • The place where an organism lives • The different levels in a food chain • The living factors in an environment • An animal that consumes another animal • An animal that gets eaten by another animal • All of the living organisms in an ecosystem • ...
B16 - Adaptations, interdependence and competition 2024-05-16
Across
- When one organism takes most of the resources, making survival difficult for another.
- An adaptation that changes the shape of an organism for survival advantage.
- When populations remain fairly constant due to balanced environmental factors and species.
- The place where a living thing resides.
- A group of living things interacting with each other and their environment.
- The reliance living things have on each other and their environment.
- The struggle for necessary resources to survive.
- A non-living factor that influences a plant's ability to photosynthesise.
Down
- An adaptation that changes the actions of an organism for survival advantage.
- A soil factor that affects plant growth.
- A system where living things interact with their non-living environment.
- A living being.
- An adaptation that changes a process within an organism for survival advantage.
- Organisms that thrive in extreme conditions like high temperature, pressure, or salinity.
- The living components of an ecosystem.
- Changes over time that help an organism survive in its environment.
- An organism that hunts and feeds on another.
- The non-living components of an ecosystem.
- A microorganism that causes disease.
19 Clues: A living being. • A microorganism that causes disease. • The living components of an ecosystem. • The place where a living thing resides. • A soil factor that affects plant growth. • The non-living components of an ecosystem. • An organism that hunts and feeds on another. • The struggle for necessary resources to survive. • ...
Earth Day 11-B 2023-04-24
Across
- a system of trash and garbage disposal in which the waste is buried.
- management of a natural resource to prevent exploitation.
- material that is considered unimportant or valueless.
- the production and discharge of something.
- relating to or derived from living matter.
- the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet.
- organic material used as a fertilizer.
- the study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them.
- he natural home or environment of an organism.
- “old” products get to be modified and get a second life as they're turned into a “new” product.
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- contaminate with harmful or poisonous substances.
- the surroundings or conditions in which a living thing operates.
- the complete disappearance of a species from Earth.
- capable of being renewed.
- able to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
- convert waste into reusable material.
- an odorless, colorless gas made up of three oxygen molecules (O3) and is a natural part of the environment
- a complex network or interconnected system.
- relating to or determined by the sun.
19 Clues: capable of being renewed. • convert waste into reusable material. • relating to or determined by the sun. • organic material used as a fertilizer. • the production and discharge of something. • relating to or derived from living matter. • a complex network or interconnected system. • he natural home or environment of an organism. • ...
Q2C2 Science Review Vocabulary 2023-12-06
Across
- an animal that is hunted and eaten by other animals
- an animal that hunts and eats other animals
- information that supports an answer to a question
- the way something is shaped or what it is made out of that makes it good for a specific function
- all the living and nonliving things in an area
- an attempt to find out about something
- something that can change in an investigation
- a structure that responds to information coming in from the environment
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- to stay alive
- a description of how something works or why something happens
- to change information from one form to another
- (noun) how an animal gets information from its environment
- to cause light to bounce off a material
- responding to small amounts of information
- the ability to see
- to use any of the five senses to gather information about something
- what something can do
- something scientists make to answer questions about the real world
- a physical or behavioral change in order to survive in an environment.
19 Clues: to stay alive • the ability to see • what something can do • an attempt to find out about something • to cause light to bounce off a material • responding to small amounts of information • an animal that hunts and eats other animals • something that can change in an investigation • to change information from one form to another • ...
Survey Of Life 2012-09-16
Across
- Inherated charactertics that imporve an organisms ability to survive in a particular environment
- Living organism
- InternalStability maintained by the body
- An observation using words
- An Organism that obtains food by eating other animals
- An observation using numbers
- Information recorded about structures by using your senses
- The study of life
- Organisms that make their own food
- Nonliving Conditions in an environment
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- All of a cells chemical process
- How a cell is organized
- A process organisms go through in order to reproduce
- A Logical conclusion bassed on an observation
- Cells that have a nucleus
- Cells without a nucleus
- Any Livinf part of an environment
- Basic unit of life
18 Clues: Living organism • The study of life • Basic unit of life • How a cell is organized • Cells without a nucleus • Cells that have a nucleus • An observation using words • An observation using numbers • All of a cells chemical process • Any Livinf part of an environment • Organisms that make their own food • Nonliving Conditions in an environment • ...
ecology crossword 2024-05-24
Across
- Energy Sources, Energy derived from unsustainable sources,
- Succession, Occurs after a community has been impacted by some sort of disturbance such as a fire,
- Succession: Occurs when a new patch of land that has no soil is exposed or created,
- Pyramid, a diagram that shows the amounts of energy and biomass at each trophic level in an ecosystem,
- organisms that eat only plant material,
- The process of an individual entering a population,
- Factors, all the living organisms in an environment,
- Web, a combination of food chains through which the energy in an ecosystem flows,
- meat-eating organisms,
- organisms that must consume other organisms for energy,
- Factors, the nonliving components of an environment,
- Cycle, a natural pathway in which essential elements are recycled in the environment,
- organisms that make their own food,
- Factor, Anything that contains a population’s size and slows or stops it from growing,
- break down dead tissue using biochemical reactions instead of ingestion,
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- The variety of life in an area,
- Occurs when an individual leaves a population,
- Limiting Factor, A factor whose effects on the growth of a population is dependent on the number of individuals in that population,
- Limiting Factor, A factor that has an effect on a population’s growth regardless of the number of individuals in that population,
- consume decomposing plant and animal tissues,
- Capacity, A species’ average population size in a particular habitat,
- Level, A position in a food chain, food web, or ecological pyramid,
- Energy Sources, Sustainable energy that can be used over and over again,
- the study of relationships between living organisms and the interactions of organisms with their environment,
- Community, A balanced stable community of plants, animals, and their environment,
- organisms that will eat plant and animal material,
- a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment,
27 Clues: meat-eating organisms, • The variety of life in an area, • organisms that make their own food, • organisms that eat only plant material, • consume decomposing plant and animal tissues, • Occurs when an individual leaves a population, • organisms that will eat plant and animal material, • The process of an individual entering a population, • ...
Unit 7 Vocabulary Quiz 2023-03-22
Across
- anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing
- the biological mechanism by which organisms adjust to new environments or to changes in their current environment.
- a non-living organism that shapes its environment
- population is an assortment of organisms of a species that live in the same place at the same time, and interbreed
- An ecological community in which populations of plants or animals remain stable and exist in balance with each other and their environment
- occurs in an area that had previously been inhabited but experienced a disturbance, such as a wildfire.
- the order of colonization of species in an ecosystem from a barren or destroyed area of land
- a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life.
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- fulfilling the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations
- population is an assortment of organisms of a species that live in the same place at the same time, and interbreed
- a large community of vegetation and wildlife adapted to a specific climate.
- occurs in an environment without previous life, or a barren habitat
- all of the animal life present in a particular region or time
- a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile offspring.
- a living organism that shapes its environment
- the area and resources used by a particular species (the habitat of a species) or an assemblage of animals and plants together with their abiotic environment
- all the different kinds of life you'll find in one area
- the effect that a pair of organisms living together in a community have on each other
- the species that first colonize new habitats created by disturbance
- a small area which differs somehow from the surrounding habitat
- the plants occurring within a given region as well as to the publication of scientific descriptions of those plants
21 Clues: a living organism that shapes its environment • a non-living organism that shapes its environment • all the different kinds of life you'll find in one area • all of the animal life present in a particular region or time • a small area which differs somehow from the surrounding habitat • occurs in an environment without previous life, or a barren habitat • ...
mid mid 2025-02-02
Across
- group of individuals of the same species living in a particular area.
- existence value; based on the principle of life and let others ethical arguments aspect that humans have a duty to protect.
- sum of all external factors acting on an organism community of organisms
- composed of different ecosystem
- smallest unit of life that makes up all living tissues
- number of species and abundance of even species that live in a particular area.
- Derived from the French meaning surrounding.
- field of study that studies the interactions of the physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment and the relationships and effects, of the components with the organisms in the environment.
- an individual living being,complex individual contain organ systems
- incorporates information from multiple disciplines
- associated with the social life customs, religion, and psychospiritual aspects of the people.
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- direct use values where the biodiversity products can be harvested and consumed directly
- assigned to those goods harvested from the environment which are bought and sold locally, nationally, and internationally.
- population of different species interacting, living in a particularplace.
- subcellular unit of life
- “willing to pay” concept of such eco-tourism gives us even a monetary benefit for aesthetic value of biodiversity
- deals with the variations in ecosystems within a geographical location and its overall impact on human existence and the environment.
- refers to each step in the flow of energy through an ecosystem.
- linear sequence of organisms
- Biodiversity huge variety of different gene sets, also define an individual's ability to tolerate stress from any given environmental factor.
- complex structure and diverse,
- Also called LEVELS OF FOOD CHAIN
- weight of living material in a trophic level.
- community of different species that interacts with each other with their nonliving environment.
- include the potential of biodiversity that are presently unknown and need to be explored. Value of knowing that there are biological resources existing in the biosphere that may once prove to be an effective option.
25 Clues: subcellular unit of life • linear sequence of organisms • complex structure and diverse, • composed of different ecosystem • Also called LEVELS OF FOOD CHAIN • Derived from the French meaning surrounding. • weight of living material in a trophic level. • incorporates information from multiple disciplines • smallest unit of life that makes up all living tissues • ...
Ecology Vocab 2024-04-09
Across
- CAPACITY Largest population an environment can support over a period of time.
- Organisms that break down dead organisms
- Individuals of the same species in the same area (environment) at the same time
- means all the LIVING things in an ecosystem (environment
- The way an organism interacts with the biotic and abiotic environment.
- Two or more organisms trying to use the same limited resources at the same time.
- PRYAMID Triangular diagram showing the loss of energy at each level of the food chain.
- are plants, algae, and some kinds of bacteria
- A community of organisms and the abiotic factors in the environment.
- The science of the relationships between organisms and their environments.
- A diagram that shows how the energy flows from one organism to the next.
- The part of the earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life.
- many Predators
- any association between two organisms living in close association with each other.
- Consumers that eat plants
- The place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows.
- an association (symbiotic relationship) in which both organisms benefit
- Organisms that get food from an outside source
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- one organism [the parasite] benefits, and the other [the host] is adversely affected [weakened, sickened, damaged etc]
- (prey)
- / PRODUCERS Organisms that can make their own food from sunlight or chemicals
- a large naturally occurring community
- When one organism looks like another for protection
- Consumers that eat dead organisms.
- enough
- Organisms that live together in an ecosystem
- FACTORS Things that keep a population from growing
- Organisms that are eaten by other organisms.
- Organisms that eat meat
- Individuals of one species benefit, while individuals of the other species do not benefit and are not harmed
- WEB A complex diagram showing the transfer of energy pathways in an ecosystem.
- Consumers that eat plants and meat.
- FACTORS means all the NON-LIVING things in an ecosystem
33 Clues: (prey) • enough • many Predators • Organisms that eat meat • Consumers that eat plants • Consumers that eat dead organisms. • Consumers that eat plants and meat. • a large naturally occurring community • Organisms that break down dead organisms • Organisms that live together in an ecosystem • Organisms that are eaten by other organisms. • ...
Jai-Lin Ecology 2021-08-26
Across
- a substance in the environment that an organism needs for their growth
- the proportion of individuals in each age group
- any force affecting the size of a population regardless of the density of the population
- any living thing that has an effect on an ecosystem
- any nonliving part of an ecosystem that can shape its environment
- the amount of individuals in each unit of area
- the parts of the Earth where living things live and thrive.
- members of a species moving to a different environment
- a populations increase that is slowed by limiting factors
- a model that shows the population growth rate
- migrating into an area with intent to reside in it from an outside area
- the max number of individuals that a species can produce
- the amount of individual organisms that are in a population
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- a community/stable system of living organisms that interact together
- an area or environment where an organism normally lives
- a graph that shows the proportion of survival of individuals at various ages
- the way organisms are spread across a given area
- population of two or more species that occupy in a certain area.
- (a group of) organisms that are able to reproduce together and make (fertile) offspring
- leaving a habitat with intent to reside in another area
- slows or stops a population's size from growing
- the understanding and study of the relationship/interaction between living organisms and their environment
- growth that increases by a constant proportion
- any force affecting the size of a population in response to the density of the population
- the largest population that can be supported by the environment
- a group of species that are living in the same place
- the measurement of the proportion of males to females in a given population
27 Clues: a model that shows the population growth rate • the amount of individuals in each unit of area • growth that increases by a constant proportion • the proportion of individuals in each age group • slows or stops a population's size from growing • the way organisms are spread across a given area • any living thing that has an effect on an ecosystem • ...
geography 2022-02-07
Across
- meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
- an increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)
- humans are superior and the most important species in the world
- all the water on earth
- the solid outer layer of the earth that consist of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
- the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet
- the value of a natural biophysical environment being impacted by human induced processes
- the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
- the environment’s provision of raw materials and natural resources, e.g. food
- release of harmful materials into the environment
- the natural home or environment of an animal, plant or other organism
- the action or fact of treating someone unfairly to benefit from their work
- hazardous waste causing danger from chemicals and infectious organisms
- nature exists for all species on earth, not just humans, and humans are equal to other species
- worldview holding that we can manage the earth for our benefit but that we have an ethical responsibility to be caring and responsible managers, or stewards, of the earth.
- the cultural, recreational or psychological value of the environment for people
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- ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
- perspectives or views held by individuals re global environment based on values and assumptions
- part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere
- supports life on earth without requiring human action eg. decomposition
- the ability of natural environments to absorb wastes and pollution
- a term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals
- part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere
- the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
24 Clues: all the water on earth • release of harmful materials into the environment • the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet • humans are superior and the most important species in the world • the ability of natural environments to absorb wastes and pollution • the natural home or environment of an animal, plant or other organism • ...
ss 2015-04-08
Across
- Model
- Thesis
- Procedure
- Question
- Knowledge
- Study
- PeerReview
- environment
- Definition
- synthesis
- Abstract 20
- technique
- Biases
- work
- observe
- Interpret
- analysis
- Example
- Define
Down
- explore
- Theory
- Hypothesis
- Data
- consequence
- Idea
- Question
- predict
- experiment
- Refine
- Collect
- Uncertainty
- Discovery
- Unknown
- test
- Creation
- Result
- relation
- passion
- method
- measure
- review
41 Clues: Data • Idea • test • work • Model • Study • Theory • Thesis • Refine • Biases • Result • method • review • Define • explore • predict • Collect • Unknown • observe • passion • Example • measure • Question • Question • Creation • relation • analysis • Procedure • Knowledge • Discovery • synthesis • technique • Interpret • Hypothesis • PeerReview • experiment • Definition • consequence • Uncertainty • environment • Abstract 20
TLE 10 2015-07-14
Across
- /This environment changes with every change in policies and political situations.
- /This consists of factors that are particularly important for industries directly dealing with import and export.
- /This environment includes factors that are usually within the control of the business.
- /They work as links between the business and the final consumers.
- /They are regarded as the king of the market.
- /It is the study of the perspective of population
- /The environment that includes factors that are beyond the control of the business enterprise.
- /The environment that influence exercised by social and cultural factors that are not within the control of the business.
- /An environment that is a systematic application of scientific knowledge to practical task.
Down
- /It includes natural resources, weather, climatic conditions, port facilities, and topographical factors such as soil, sea, rivers, rainfall, etc.
- /It refers to the aspects of surroundings.
- /Means the condition or state in which a person is busy and remains busy.
- /These are the companies in the same or similar industry and offer a similar product or service.
- /Involves the sale or lease of any product, service, equipment, etc. that will enable the purchaser-licensee to begin a business.
- /They are the reliable persons who supply raw materials and required components to the company.
15 Clues: /It refers to the aspects of surroundings. • /They are regarded as the king of the market. • /It is the study of the perspective of population • /They work as links between the business and the final consumers. • /Means the condition or state in which a person is busy and remains busy. • ...
Sustainability Key Terms 2021-05-26
Som intermediate vocabulary practice 2025-05-20
Contaminants in the Environment Key Terms - Study Aid 2013-01-29
Across
- Describes the process of a contaminant attaching/binding to a solid (e.g. soil or plant matter).
- The coefficient used to describe the estimated diffusion rate of a contaminant in different media at a given temperature.
- Describes the amount of substance moving through a given system over time.
- The increase in concentration of a contaminant in each successive step of the food chain
- Property of contaminant that determines it ability to dissolve
- Describes movement of contaminant in the environment
- Phase transition from a liquid to a gas phase
- The accumulation of a contaminant in an organism through environmental exposure and food
- The ability of a compound to dissolve in fats
- Term describing the slowing of diffusion through porous material due to bending and twisting around solid particles
- A mass balance situation where there are no inputs or outputs to the system being considered
- Property of contaminant that determines its tendency to move into a gaseous phase
- Describes mass transfer within environmental media..
- Law Constant that describes the partitioning of a contaminant between water and air.
- The degradation of a contaminant by microorganisms in the environment
- Describes an intraphase mass transfer process where concentration gradient moves contaminant
- The degradation of a contaminant by light
- Term describing the slowing of diffusion through porous material due to the narrowing of the path of motion
- Condition in the environment where oxygen is present
- Process of contaminant settling out of air or water.
- Process of contaminant settling out in water
- Condition in the environment where no oxygen is present
- Describes an intraphase mass transfer process where motion of media causes contaminant to move in different directions
- Property of the surface of a contaminant that allows it to resist external force
- The amount of a contaminant available to an organism related to amount in environment and composition of diet
- Process that destroys a substance in a system; within the boundary of the control volume
Down
- Term describing the slowing of diffusion through porous material due to solid particles blocking the path of motion
- Easily identified & specific point of entry of a contaminant to the environment.
- Describes the amount of substance moving through system per unit area over time.
- Process moving substance into a system; across the boundary of the control volume
- Accounts for the production, loss, destruction, and accumulation of a contaminant in the environment.
- Area of the environment (e.g. air, water, soil, biota).
- Defined boundaries to help solve a problem.
- Diffuse entry and potentially multiple points of entry of a contaminant to the environment.
- Describes an intraphase mass transfer process where media moves contaminant
- The degradation of a contaminant by water due to the formation of new carbon-oxygen bonds
- A mass balance situation where there is continual exchange of energy and mass to the system being considered
- Describes mass transfer between environmental media.
- No change in concentration or accumulation of a contaminant in the environment.
- The accumulation of contaminants in organisms through contact with their body
- The partition coefficient used to describe the likelihood of a contaminant to dissolve in fat
- Type of intermass transfer moving contaminant from soils/water to air.
- Describes what ultimately happens to a contaminant in the environment
- Process that creates a substance in a system; within the boundary of the control volume
- Process moving a substance out of a system; across the boundary of the control volume
45 Clues: The degradation of a contaminant by light • Defined boundaries to help solve a problem. • Process of contaminant settling out in water • Phase transition from a liquid to a gas phase • The ability of a compound to dissolve in fats • Describes movement of contaminant in the environment • Describes mass transfer between environmental media. • ...
Business Ownership 2023-03-02
Across
- 1 owner with unlimited responsibility
- environment outside a business
- environment outside business control
- the concept of business responsibility
- those who invest in a company and own it
- 2-20 owners splitting responsibilities
- liability that exists for a sole trader
Down
- environment directly external to a business
- environment within a business
- where shares are traded in a public company
- those with a vested interest in a business
- can be public or private liability is limited
12 Clues: environment within a business • environment outside a business • environment outside business control • 1 owner with unlimited responsibility • the concept of business responsibility • 2-20 owners splitting responsibilities • liability that exists for a sole trader • those who invest in a company and own it • those with a vested interest in a business • ...
Sustainability Key Terms 2021-05-26
qe[okrorfJ[OEJFC 2020-08-23
Across
- that conditions were different in different countries so the strategies adopted would have to be different.
- ABCDEF Ltd. decided to start its new venture in Delhi. For this they needed to understand the
- As a result,— Innovative techniques are being developed to manufacture jute bags at low rates.
- These bags create many environmental problems which affect the life of people.Society at large is more concerned about the quality of life. Identify the dimension of business environment.
- different elements of the Business Environment.
- _____ refer to the positive external trends or changes that will help a firm to improve its performance.
- environment of the area. It was realised by the company that the business environment of Delhi was very hard to understand unless and until it was divided into different business dimensions like legal, political, economic, social and technological conditions. As we can see it is very difficult to understand the business environment unless it is broken into its dimensions.
- Bharat is running an ice cream parlour in a local market.Keeping in mind the changing perceptions about health among the people, one of his employee Abhiraj suggests to him that they should introduced range a flavoured yogurt. Bharat accepts his suggestion as a result both the image and the profitability of his business increases.Identify the feature of management which is being highlighted.
Down
- The government decided to give a subsidy to the jute industry in order to promote this business.Identify the dimension of business environment.
- It was concluded that company was doing extremely well in the domestic market and the client base was expanding. However, when the company’s performance in foreign markets was evaluated it was
- Business Environment is the sum total of _____ institutions and other forces that are outside the control of a business enterprise.
- After understanding the business situations the company started to study the close links
- The court passed an order to ban polythene bags. Identify the dimension of business environment.
- ___ refer to the external environment trends and changes that will hinder a firm’s performance.
- Incomes are rising and people can afford to buy these bags.
15 Clues: different elements of the Business Environment. • Incomes are rising and people can afford to buy these bags. • After understanding the business situations the company started to study the close links • ABCDEF Ltd. decided to start its new venture in Delhi. For this they needed to understand the • ...
Biodiversity and Just Drifting Along Vocabulary 2022-01-21
Across
- Small creatures with shrimp-like appearance
- Anything alive
- Living or once-living factor of an environment
- Multiple cells in the body
- Not living, never was living, never will be alive factor of an environment
- Cutting down trees
- Does not have a nucleus to store genetic information
- The ability to keep going longer
- Has a nucleus to store genetic information
Down
- Different traits in one group/species
- 3 broad groups of organisms
- Where different organisms live
- The differences in organisms and environments
- Small, flat creatures that drift across the ocean
- Make their own food
- One cell in the whole body
- 2nd broadest groups of organisms, ex: animalia
- Must eat other organisms
18 Clues: Anything alive • Cutting down trees • Make their own food • Must eat other organisms • Multiple cells in the body • One cell in the whole body • 3 broad groups of organisms • Where different organisms live • The ability to keep going longer • Different traits in one group/species • Has a nucleus to store genetic information • Small creatures with shrimp-like appearance • ...
Life Science Semester Review 2024-01-09
Across
- takes place on land where there are no living organisms
- all the living organisms in an environment
- one organism benefits and the other is neither helped or harmed
- any relationship in which 2 species live closely together
- pattern of changes that takes place after an existing community is destroyed
- study of the interactions among organisms and their environment
- has low salt concentration- usually less than 1%
- large group of ecosystems that shares the same type of climax community
- the non-living parts of the environment
- an organized set of investigation procedures used by scientists
- organisms that seek out and eat other organisms
- y-axis
- the study of life: also known as life science
Down
- organisms that are eaten
- anything that limits an organisms ability to live in a particular environment
- the process of grdual, natural, change and species replacement that takes place in the communities of an ecosystem over time
- things that have all the characteristics of life made of one or more cells
- educated guess or testable prediction
- x-axis
- all strategies and adaptation a species uses in it's environment
- a stable community formes after primary or secondary succession once little or no change occurs
- organisms that use sunlight or energy stored in chemical compounds to make food because they make their food- producers
- process that uses observation and investigation to gain knowledge about events in nature
- organisms that rely on other organisms for their energy and food supply;also called consumers
- the ability of living things to survive the changes in the environment
- cover about 3/4 of earths surface and includes oceans, coral reefs, and estuaries
- both species benefit from each other
- one organism lives on or in organism and harms it
28 Clues: x-axis • y-axis • organisms that are eaten • both species benefit from each other • educated guess or testable prediction • the non-living parts of the environment • all the living organisms in an environment • the study of life: also known as life science • organisms that seek out and eat other organisms • has low salt concentration- usually less than 1% • ...
ecology 2023-01-17
Across
- ecology comes from a greek word meaning housekeeping
- focuses on quality more than quantity normally stays at the capacity the environment can
- consists of all the individuals of a species living in a given area
- the nonliving parts of an environment
- made up of the interactions of groups of species living in a common location
- concentrate on having as many offspring if possible as fast as possible
- a high level of _____ is a sign of a healthy,well functioning natural community
- in a ___ relationship, one species benefits while the other remains unaffected
- the functional role played by a species in the community it inhabits
- large regions of the biosphere that have different characteristic s
- contains the air water and soil that helps earth's living thing survive
- when animals and plants develop characteristics to help cope with their environment, this process is called ___
- the creator of ecology
- population __ is a measure of the number of individuals within a given area
- consists of a biological community and its physical environment
- ecology doesn't only cover the biological parts of an environment it also covers the ___ parts
- a __ resource is a resource that limits the growth of two or more competing species
- the study of the environment and how organisms interact with it
Down
- the growth or behavior of one or more species controls the activity and other characteristics of the community, these species are called ___
- the struggle between two or more individuals species for a common resource
- before ecology people used these to tell the time of year or where something is
- the killing and eating of one living organism by another
- in __ communities , vegetation patterns are influenced by climate and soil
- dominant species influence the density as well as the __ of a community
- the presence of a __ species is crucial to maintaining the functioning and diversity of many communities
25 Clues: the creator of ecology • the nonliving parts of an environment • ecology comes from a greek word meaning housekeeping • the killing and eating of one living organism by another • consists of a biological community and its physical environment • the study of the environment and how organisms interact with it • ...
NATURAL SELECTION REVIEW 2026-01-21
Across
- Finite environmental supply
- Producing many offspring
- Differences within species
- Living long enough
- Where organisms live
- Change over time
- Helpful for success
- Surviving chemical pesticides
- Source of variation
Down
- Passing down genes
- Inherited physical characteristic
- Father of Evolution
- Blending with environment
- Animal being hunted
- Animal that hunts
- Nature choosing survivors
- Ability to reproduce
- Evidence of evolution
- Group that evolves
- Inherited favorable trait
20 Clues: Change over time • Animal that hunts • Passing down genes • Living long enough • Group that evolves • Father of Evolution • Animal being hunted • Helpful for success • Source of variation • Ability to reproduce • Where organisms live • Evidence of evolution • Producing many offspring • Blending with environment • Nature choosing survivors • Inherited favorable trait • Differences within species • ...
Sustainability Key Terms 2021-05-26
Sustainability 2020-04-28
11 Clues: to keep going • to look after • to world we live in • where the animals live • bad for the environment • where the sea life live • what people leave behind • where many reptiles and insects live • where the australian marsupials live • who needs to care for the environment • why we need to care for the environment for
Biosphere Vocabulary 2024-04-24
Across
- a diagram that shows one feeding relationship in an environment
- the study of population characteristics such as growth rate, age structure, and geographic distribution
- the total weight of all living matter
- a group of organisms, all of the same species that inhabit an area at the same time
- growth pattern where a population grows faster as it increases in size
- arid region with sparse to almost nonexistent vegetation
- biome just south of the tundra, characterized by a boreal forest or northern coniferous forest and acidic mineral poor topsoils
- the study of organisms and how they interact with their environment
- biome near the equator with warm temperatures, wet weather, and lush plant growth
- coastal body of water, partially surrounded by land in which freshwater and saltwater mix
- the ability of an organism to withstand fluctuations in biotic and abiotic factors
- factor all the living things in an environment
Down
- the number of organisms an environment can support
- all of the biotic and abiotic factors that make up an environment
- biome composed of large communities covered with rich soils, grasses, and similar small plants, receives 25-75 cm of precipitation annually
- portion of Earth that supports life
- biome composed of forests of boroad leaf hardwood trees that lose their foliage annually, receives 70-150 cm of precipitation annually
- biome that surrounds the north and south poles; treeless land with long summer days and short period of winter sunlight, characterized by permafrost
- community a community made up of interactive populations in a certain area at a certain time
- portion of the shoreline that lies between high tide and low tide
- factor nonliving part of an ecosystem
- group of ecosystems with the same climax communities
- a diagram that shows all the possible feeding relationships in an environment
- a place where an organism lives its life
24 Clues: portion of Earth that supports life • the total weight of all living matter • factor nonliving part of an ecosystem • a place where an organism lives its life • factor all the living things in an environment • the number of organisms an environment can support • group of ecosystems with the same climax communities • ...
orfJ[O 2020-08-23
Across
- that conditions were different in different countries so the strategies adopted would have to be different.
- ABCDEF Ltd. decided to start its new venture in Delhi. For this they needed to understand the
- As a result,— Innovative techniques are being developed to manufacture jute bags at low rates.
- These bags create many environmental problems which affect the life of people.Society at large is more concerned about the quality of life. Identify the dimension of business environment.
- different elements of the Business Environment.
- _____ refer to the positive external trends or changes that will help a firm to improve its performance.
- environment of the area. It was realised by the company that the business environment of Delhi was very hard to understand unless and until it was divided into different business dimensions like legal, political, economic, social and technological conditions. As we can see it is very difficult to understand the business environment unless it is broken into its dimensions.
- Bharat is running an ice cream parlour in a local market.Keeping in mind the changing perceptions about health among the people, one of his employee Abhiraj suggests to him that they should introduced range a flavoured yogurt. Bharat accepts his suggestion as a result both the image and the profitability of his business increases.Identify the feature of management which is being highlighted.
Down
- The government decided to give a subsidy to the jute industry in order to promote this business.Identify the dimension of business environment.
- It was concluded that company was doing extremely well in the domestic market and the client base was expanding. However, when the company’s performance in foreign markets was evaluated it was
- Business Environment is the sum total of _____ institutions and other forces that are outside the control of a business enterprise.
- After understanding the business situations the company started to study the close links
- The court passed an order to ban polythene bags. Identify the dimension of business environment.
- ___ refer to the external environment trends and changes that will hinder a firm’s performance.
- Incomes are rising and people can afford to buy these bags.
15 Clues: different elements of the Business Environment. • Incomes are rising and people can afford to buy these bags. • After understanding the business situations the company started to study the close links • ABCDEF Ltd. decided to start its new venture in Delhi. For this they needed to understand the • ...
qeorfJ[OEJFC 2020-08-23
Across
- that conditions were different in different countries so the strategies adopted would have to be different.
- ABCDEF Ltd. decided to start its new venture in Delhi. For this they needed to understand the
- As a result,— Innovative techniques are being developed to manufacture jute bags at low rates.
- These bags create many environmental problems which affect the life of people.Society at large is more concerned about the quality of life. Identify the dimension of business environment.
- different elements of the Business Environment.
- _____ refer to the positive external trends or changes that will help a firm to improve its performance.
- environment of the area. It was realised by the company that the business environment of Delhi was very hard to understand unless and until it was divided into different business dimensions like legal, political, economic, social and technological conditions. As we can see it is very difficult to understand the business environment unless it is broken into its dimensions.
- Bharat is running an ice cream parlour in a local market.Keeping in mind the changing perceptions about health among the people, one of his employee Abhiraj suggests to him that they should introduced range a flavoured yogurt. Bharat accepts his suggestion as a result both the image and the profitability of his business increases.Identify the feature of management which is being highlighted.
Down
- The government decided to give a subsidy to the jute industry in order to promote this business.Identify the dimension of business environment.
- It was concluded that company was doing extremely well in the domestic market and the client base was expanding. However, when the company’s performance in foreign markets was evaluated it was
- Business Environment is the sum total of _____ institutions and other forces that are outside the control of a business enterprise.
- After understanding the business situations the company started to study the close links
- The court passed an order to ban polythene bags. Identify the dimension of business environment.
- ___ refer to the external environment trends and changes that will hinder a firm’s performance.
- Incomes are rising and people can afford to buy these bags.
15 Clues: different elements of the Business Environment. • Incomes are rising and people can afford to buy these bags. • After understanding the business situations the company started to study the close links • ABCDEF Ltd. decided to start its new venture in Delhi. For this they needed to understand the • ...
Ecology 2021-03-01
Across
- Non-living parts of the environment
- Preventing wasteful use of resources
- A type of animal
- The food of a larger meat eating animal
- A living organism that eats only plants
- A meat eating animal
Down
- The amount of animals living together
- Meat eating animal that eat smaller ones
- A place where a living organism lives
- An animal changes to fit its environment
- Living organisms in their environment
- The study of ecosystems
- Position in the food chain
- Animals that live off of other organisms
- They are herbivores
- Organisms that use photosynthesis
- A group of living things living together
17 Clues: A type of animal • They are herbivores • A meat eating animal • The study of ecosystems • Position in the food chain • Organisms that use photosynthesis • Non-living parts of the environment • Preventing wasteful use of resources • The amount of animals living together • A place where a living organism lives • Living organisms in their environment • ...
E-waste 2025-11-30
Across
- it's when children have to work
- using fire to destroy something
- the natural world around us
- people who do a job
- a device that stores energy for electronics
- old or broken electronic devices
- dirty or harmful materials in the environment
- throwing large amounts of waste in one place
Down
- parts of a machine or device
- a place where waste is dumped
- to use something again
- to turn waste into something new
- a metal used in batteries
- condition of being protected from danger
- to fix something
- it can be mental and physical
- very dangerous for people or the environment
17 Clues: to fix something • people who do a job • to use something again • a metal used in batteries • the natural world around us • parts of a machine or device • a place where waste is dumped • it can be mental and physical • it's when children have to work • using fire to destroy something • to turn waste into something new • old or broken electronic devices • ...
Cross Word Puzzle 2023-02-23
Ecology 2023-03-16
Across
- organisms that obtain food by eating other organisms
- animal that hunts and eats other animals
- living
- largest amount of a population that can be supported by an area
- the study of living things and their environments
- materials found in nature that are used by living things
- Everything that surrounds a living thing
- total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level
- overall weather in an area over a long period of time
Down
- way of showing how food chains are related
- way of showing how energy moves through a food chain
- step in a food chain or food web
- conditions in the environment that put limits on where an organism can live
- living and nonliving things in an environment, together with their interactions
- largest number of individuals of a population that a given environment can support
- organism that breaks down the wastes or remains of other organisms
- animal hunted or caught for food
- a chain of organisms in which each link feeds on the one ahead and is eaten by the one behind
- large region of the earth with particular plant and animal communities
- non-living
20 Clues: living • non-living • step in a food chain or food web • animal hunted or caught for food • animal that hunts and eats other animals • Everything that surrounds a living thing • way of showing how food chains are related • the study of living things and their environments • way of showing how energy moves through a food chain • ...
Ecology part 1 2024-02-28
Across
- natural home or environment of an organism
- Organisms that are consumed for food
- relating to or resulting from living things,in their ecological relations
- The variety of life across all levels in a biological setting
- consumer A high level predator in the food web
- An animal that feeds on another animal
- Total mass of organisms in a certain area
- diversity variety of genes within a population,important for survival
- levels levels in an ecosystem’s food chain where organisms obtain energy
- organism that gets energy by eating living things in the food chain
Down
- capacity maximum population an environment can support
- factors factors that restrict organism growth
- non-living chemical and physical factors of an environment
- web a complex diagram of who eats whom in an ecosystem
- species organisms that disrupt ecosystems by dominating that region
- community of living organisms interacting with their environment
- chain Linear sequence of a predators and prey in an ecosystem from pants to apex species
- Adjustment to repeated stimuli in organisms leading to decrease
- Organism that makes its own food,often through photosynthesis
- pyramid Ecological model of displaying the flow of calories through trophic levels
20 Clues: Organisms that are consumed for food • An animal that feeds on another animal • Total mass of organisms in a certain area • natural home or environment of an organism • factors factors that restrict organism growth • consumer A high level predator in the food web • non-living chemical and physical factors of an environment • ...
Key Geographic Concepts 2025-05-26
Across
- A set of features linked together to form a whole
- A natural or cultural resource found in an environment
- Movement of Māori in response to their needs
- Any alteration of the natural and cultural environment
- A common way of life shared by a group of people
- How societies behave to meet their own needs without preventing future generations from meeting theirs
- The process of making something worldwide in scope or application
- Elements of an environment affecting each other and linked together
- Regions with particular characteristics in common
Down
- How far away one geographic feature is from another
- People’s responsibilities to manage land and other resources
- Ways of looking at the world
- Hospitality shown to visitors to make them feel welcome
- A spot on the earth’s surface
- Where something is found on the earth’s surface
- The ease of movement of people or ideas
- A sequence of actions that shape and change environments
- Caring for the environment in a sustainable way
- An arrangement of features either on the earth (spatial) or over time (temporal)
19 Clues: Ways of looking at the world • A spot on the earth’s surface • The ease of movement of people or ideas • Movement of Māori in response to their needs • Where something is found on the earth’s surface • Caring for the environment in a sustainable way • A common way of life shared by a group of people • A set of features linked together to form a whole • ...
Environmental Change and Management 2022-02-07
Across
- meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
- an increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)
- humans are superior and the most important species in the world
- all the water on earth
- the solid outer layer of the earth that consist of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
- the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet
- the value of a natural biophysical environment being impacted by human induced processes
- the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
- the environment’s provision of raw materials and natural resources, e.g. food
- release of harmful materials into the environment
- the natural home or environment of an animal, plant or other organism
- the action or fact of treating someone unfairly to benefit from their work
- hazardous waste causing danger from chemicals and infectious organisms
- nature exists for all species on earth, not just humans, and humans are equal to other species
- worldview holding that we can manage the earth for our benefit but that we have an ethical responsibility to be caring and responsible managers, or stewards, of the earth.
- the cultural, recreational or psychological value of the environment for people
Down
- ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
- perspectives or views held by individuals re global environment based on values and assumptions
- part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere
- supports life on earth without requiring human action eg. decomposition
- the ability of natural environments to absorb wastes and pollution
- a term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals
- part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere
- the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
24 Clues: all the water on earth • release of harmful materials into the environment • the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet • humans are superior and the most important species in the world • the ability of natural environments to absorb wastes and pollution • the natural home or environment of an animal, plant or other organism • ...
Human Impacts Revision 2025-09-27
Across
- Earth’s continents were once all connected to form a “supercontinent” called...
- Describes the process in which carbon atoms continually travel from the atmosphere to the Earth and then back into the atmosphere.
- individuals that are more suited to their environment survive and reproduce, passing on their desirable traits to offspring.
- The long-term heating of Earth’s surface.
- A group of organisms of the same species living together.
- The food plants make.
- Earth's thin outer shell of rock.
- The liquid layer of iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core.
- The process in which living things use oxygen to release energy from their food.
- Is the process by which plants capture energy from sunlight and turn it into food.
Down
- Various levels in a food chain.
- Adaptations that are internal or cellular features that help the organism to survive. These aren’t always seen in the organism's appearance.
- Adaptations that are physical features of a plant or animal that improve its chance of survival in its environment.
- Adaptations that are actions of a plant or animal that enable them to survive in their environment.
- Acronym to remember the life processes.
- A group of living organisms that live in and interact with each other in a specific environment.
- Several different species living together in one area.
- A huge metal ball in the centre of the Earth, 2,500km wide. Made mainly of iron, the temperature of the ball is 5,000°C to 6,000°.
- The preservation and protection of natural and historic resources for the purpose of maintaining their intrinsic values, providing for their appreciation and recreational enjoyment by the public, and safeguarding the options of future generations.
- The mostly-solid bulk of Earth's interior. In between the core and the crust.
- The study of living things and their environment.
- How plants store their food.
- Characteristics that an organism has to help it to live, or survive in its environment.
- The place where organisms lives.
24 Clues: The food plants make. • How plants store their food. • Various levels in a food chain. • The place where organisms lives. • Earth's thin outer shell of rock. • Acronym to remember the life processes. • The long-term heating of Earth’s surface. • The study of living things and their environment. • Several different species living together in one area. • ...
Stewards of Creation 2020-08-24
Across
- Garbage/pollution
- progression of unhealthy soil
- what the land has to offer
- industrialising the land
- toxic pollution
- Gods most intelligent creation
- a toxic environment
- most places on earth
- defend
- anything that is created
Down
- Jesus and God
- looking after the environment
- salt going into soil
- Taking care of the land
- reuse
- a rumour
- the three R's
- domestic populization
- people united
- facts
20 Clues: reuse • facts • defend • a rumour • Jesus and God • the three R's • people united • toxic pollution • Garbage/pollution • a toxic environment • salt going into soil • most places on earth • domestic populization • Taking care of the land • industrialising the land • anything that is created • what the land has to offer • looking after the environment • progression of unhealthy soil • ...
January stems list 4 2025-01-13
30 Clues: all • one • omni • more • prim • mono • pyro • mega • phyt • dorm • plur • many • fire • fire • phile • light • first • photo • sleep • growth • ec/eco • lover-of • love books • multi/poly • environment • caustic/caut • large-or-great • plants turn towards the sun • scientist who work with plants • most college students live in a
Reason for Resource 2021-06-07
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- The way that the management of a resource affects people or the environment.
- How people use resources.
- Sustainability: Making sure that people have equal rights to resources so that they all have the potential to participate in society to their full potential.
- Where a resource can be found.
- Resource: A resource made by humans.
- A thing that we use to meet our needs and wants.
- The amount of a resource that is available, or that can be made.
- Resource: A resource that can only be used a limited number of times.
- A way of managing resources in an environment so that resources are used to their full potential. And so that there are enough resources left for others to use later.
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- A thing that is in an environment like a mountain, a plant or a road.
- When there are not enough resources to meet everyone's needs and wants.
- A place that is made up of a group of features like a desert, or a city.
- Sustainability: Making sure that resources in an environment are managed well so that they are not damaged, and can be re-used in the future.
- Sustainability: Making sure that the ideas and beliefs of a cultural group are looked after so that they are passed onto future generations. E.g. learning about te reo in NZ schools.
- A problem that affects an environment.
- Resource: A resource that can be used again.
- Resource: A resource made by nature.
- Sustainability: Making sure that money is well-managed so that it does not run out. Or so that money can be reinvested to make more money, or to enhance resources.
- When there are enough resources to meet everyone’s needs and wants.
19 Clues: How people use resources. • Where a resource can be found. • Resource: A resource made by nature. • Resource: A resource made by humans. • A problem that affects an environment. • Resource: A resource that can be used again. • A thing that we use to meet our needs and wants. • The amount of a resource that is available, or that can be made. • ...
Environmental Health 2021-05-12
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- trapping of heat by CO2 and other gases in the air
- change an item in some way, to use it again
- abbreviation for the governmental agency committed to protecting the environment
- products used on crops to control insects
- reducing waste before it occurs
- wastes that may endanger human health or the environment
- precipitation that is far more acidic than normal
- pits where waste is dumped and buried
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- easily broken down in the environment
- saving of resources
- rise in the earth's temperatures
- resources that cannot be replaced once they are used
- any dirty or harmful substance in the environment
- yellow-brown haze from sunlight passing through air pollution
14 Clues: saving of resources • reducing waste before it occurs • rise in the earth's temperatures • easily broken down in the environment • pits where waste is dumped and buried • products used on crops to control insects • change an item in some way, to use it again • any dirty or harmful substance in the environment • precipitation that is far more acidic than normal • ...
P1 APES CROSSWORD 2023-01-17
Across
- Development of a species over time to adapt to their environment better
- How many different species are in an environment
- Energy from the sun
- The worlds temperature getting warmer
- The process where natural materials are worn down and transported by natural
- ________ and longitude
- There's 4 of them in a year
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- The first one is that energy cant be created or destroyed
- The process where animals better adapted to an environment survives better than others
- Chopping down a bunch of trees
- A system of how animals eat each other is displayed
- A species that other species depend on in an environment
- Its atomic number is 6
- Shifting of tectonic plates
14 Clues: Energy from the sun • Its atomic number is 6 • ________ and longitude • Shifting of tectonic plates • There's 4 of them in a year • Chopping down a bunch of trees • The worlds temperature getting warmer • How many different species are in an environment • A system of how animals eat each other is displayed • A species that other species depend on in an environment • ...
WED 2025-12-17
12 Clues: let go of • change place • changing place • the last wed step • the first wed step • the second wed step • shatter,fracture,etc. • a deposition environment • made of dirt,rocks,and mud • an environment made by deposition • chunks made of minerals like quartz • another deposition environment/landform
Regents Review - Key Idea 1 Crossword 2021-12-13
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- All of Earth’s ecosystems, collectively; the biologically inhabited portions of Earth, including all of the water, land, and air in which organisms survive
- An organism that survives by eating animals
- The specific role played by an organism or a population of organisms in the ecosystem
- An organism that eats only plants
- An organism that produces its own food; the source of energy for all other living things on Earth
- An organisms that survives by living and feeding on other organisms
- An animal that is hunted and killed by predators
- A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
- A diagram showing how food energy moves through the ecosystem
- An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
- A combination of all the different populations that live and interact in the same environment
- The process by which an existing community is replaced by another community
- Every living and non-living thing that surrounds an organism
- The struggle between organisms for the same limited resources in a particular area
- A representation of many interconnected food chains that shows the feeding relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers
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- The largest population of any single species that an area can support
- A representation that identifies the specific relationships among organisms
- The living parts of the environment
- An organism that cannot make its own food; a consumer
- An organism that makes its own food from light energy and inorganic materials
- The variety of species in an area
- The organism in a parasitic relationship that provides the home and/or food for the parasite
- An organism, generally a bacteria or fungus, that consumes dead organisms and organic waste
- Nonliving parts of the environment
- The study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment
- The place where a plant or animal lives
- Any factor in the environment that limits the size of a population
- All the living and non-living things that interact in a specific area; a subdivision of the environment
- An organisms that obtains it’s energy from producers
- All the individuals of a single species that live in a specific area
30 Clues: An organism that eats only plants • The variety of species in an area • Nonliving parts of the environment • The living parts of the environment • The place where a plant or animal lives • An organism that survives by eating animals • An animal that is hunted and killed by predators • An organisms that obtains it’s energy from producers • ...
Ecology Crossword 2022-04-05
Across
- Any relationship in which two species live closely together
- show how matter and energy move through ecosystem in a series of steps
- Phosphorus in biosphere cycles among the land, ocean sediments and living organisms
- one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
- make their own food
- Study of the interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
- Models that show all possible feeding relationships at each trophic level in a community
- The atmosphere is the main reservoir of nitrogen; it also cycles through the soil and tissues of living organisms.
- organisms that are eaten
- The ability of living things to survive the changes in their environment.
- one organism lives on or in organism and harms it
- The non-living parts of the environment
- consumer other organisms for energy
- cycle of carbon in the environment
- An area where an organism lives
- Organisms that rely on other organisms for their energy and food supply
- Organisms that use sunlight or energy stored in chemical compounds to make food
- both species benefit from relationship
- is the main energy source for life on Earth.
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- Diagram that shows amounts of energy or matter at each trophic level
- Anything that limits an organism’s ability to live in a particular environment
- a stable community formed after primary or secondary succession once little or no change occurs
- break down wastes organic matter (dead organisms) and return them to the ecosystem
- organisms that seek out and eat other organisms
- Made up of populations of organisms that live in a common area
- large group of ecosystems that shares the same type of climax community
- All strategies and adaptations a species uses in its environment
- Organisms that make their own food
- Elements, compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another
- The process of gradual, natural, change and species replacement that takes place in the communities of an ecosystem over time.
- All the living organisms in an environment
- Process used by autotrophs to make food energy from the sun
- Autotrophs that capture chemical energy since they live in places without sunlight
- Water is constantly moving between
- atmosphere & Earth.
35 Clues: make their own food • atmosphere & Earth. • organisms that are eaten • An area where an organism lives • Organisms that make their own food • cycle of carbon in the environment • Water is constantly moving between • consumer other organisms for energy • The non-living parts of the environment • both species benefit from relationship • All the living organisms in an environment • ...
Ecology Crossword 2022-04-05
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- large group of ecosystems that shares the same type of climax community
- Anything that limits an organism’s ability to live in a particular environment
- a stable community formed after primary or secondary succession once little or no change occurs
- Water is constantly moving between the atmosphere & Earth.
- make their own food
- The atmosphere is the main reservoir of nitrogen; it also cycles through the soil and tissues of living organisms.
- An area where an organism lives
- one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
- Phosphorus in biosphere cycles among the land, ocean sediments and living organisms
- break down wastes organic matter (dead organisms) and return them to the ecosystem
- Autotrophs that capture chemical energy since they live in places without sunlight
- Process used by autotrophs to make food energy from the sun
- All the living organisms in an environment
- organisms that are eaten
- Study of the interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
- The ability of living things to survive the changes in their environment.
- Organisms that rely on other organisms for their energy and food supply
- one organism lives on or in organism and harms it
- Models that show all possible feeding relationships at each trophic level in a community
- Diagram that shows amounts of energy or matter at each trophic level
- organisms that seek out and eat other organisms
- All strategies and adaptations a species uses in its environment
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- both species benefit from relationship
- Elements, compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another
- The process of gradual, natural, change and species replacement that takes place in the communities of an ecosystem over time.
- Organisms that use sunlight or energy stored in chemical compounds to make food
- cycle of carbon in the environment
- Made up of populations of organisms that live in a common area
- The non-living parts of the environment
- Any relationship in which two species live closely together
- Organisms that make their own food
- consumes other organisms for energy
- is the main energy source for life on Earth.
- show how matter and energy move through ecosystem in a series of steps
34 Clues: make their own food • organisms that are eaten • An area where an organism lives • cycle of carbon in the environment • Organisms that make their own food • consumes other organisms for energy • both species benefit from relationship • The non-living parts of the environment • All the living organisms in an environment • is the main energy source for life on Earth. • ...
Food Chain & Food Webs 2025-10-16
Across
- the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
- natural environment of a plant or animal
- An organism that eats meat for energy
- role of an organism in a community
- variation of living things
- The study of how living (and nonliving parts interact
- chain An interconnected chain of organisms related to energy transfer
- An organism that consumes another organism as food for energy
- Level A group of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain
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- Nonliving factors in the environment
- An organism capable of synthesizing its own food
- Living factors in the environment
- An organism that eats plants for energy
- An organism that breaks down organic material
- Web A network of interconnected food chains
- An organism that eats both plants and meat for energy.
16 Clues: variation of living things • Living factors in the environment • role of an organism in a community • Nonliving factors in the environment • An organism that eats meat for energy • An organism that eats plants for energy • natural environment of a plant or animal • Web A network of interconnected food chains • An organism that breaks down organic material • ...
Populations 2020-05-11
Across
- cannot exist without the other
- non-living part of the environment
- specific type of organism
- is no longer alive
- different group of animals
- group of the same animal
- was never alive
- living thing
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- is currently alive
- feeds on other animals
- Area an organism lives
- living or dead part of the environment
- feeds on other organisms
- turns sunlight into chemical energy
- is the association between two organisms where one benefits from the relationship and the other organism is not affected
- where one organism benefits at the expense of the other
- where two species both benefit from interacting with eachother
17 Clues: living thing • was never alive • is currently alive • is no longer alive • feeds on other animals • Area an organism lives • feeds on other organisms • group of the same animal • specific type of organism • different group of animals • cannot exist without the other • non-living part of the environment • turns sunlight into chemical energy • living or dead part of the environment • ...
Biology Terms 2016-09-15
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- food materials into simpler forms
- removal these material wastes from organism body
- study of living things
- the act of discharging waste material
- chemical reaction occurring within cells
- releasing chemical energy
- substances enter and leave cells & become distributed
- taking food from its environment
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- organisms able to combine simple substances
- substances organisms need fro energy growth and repair
- reproduction 2 parents off spring are identical
- condition of a constant internal environment
- help ,maintain organisms homeostasis
- organism taking materials from its external environment
- living organisms increases in size
- reproduction single individual produces offspring identical to parents
- each living thing
17 Clues: each living thing • study of living things • releasing chemical energy • taking food from its environment • food materials into simpler forms • living organisms increases in size • help ,maintain organisms homeostasis • the act of discharging waste material • chemical reaction occurring within cells • organisms able to combine simple substances • ...
ecology terminology 2023-04-26
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- any kind of green plant that makes its own food
- interaction between the community and the non-living factors in the environment
- role of a species with the community
- study of relationships between organisms and the living and non-living factors in the environment
- nonliving factors in the environment
- one organism benefits and the other is unaffected
- process that scientists can use to gather information about the world around them
- all of one species
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- living factors in the environment
- any organism that cannot make its own food
- one organism benefits and the other is harmed
- a broader term than habitat and can comprise a variety of habitats
- consists of all the food chains in an ecosystem
- all populations in an area
- both organisms benefit
15 Clues: all of one species • both organisms benefit • all populations in an area • living factors in the environment • role of a species with the community • nonliving factors in the environment • any organism that cannot make its own food • one organism benefits and the other is harmed • any kind of green plant that makes its own food • ...
Respiration Key Words 2024-11-08
Across
- gas produced by respiration
- type of cell which carries oxygen to the body's cells
- organ needed to remove carbon dioxide from the body
- folded membrane of the mitochondria provide a large ______ ____
- type of reaction that requires a transfer of energy from the environment
- type of respiration that requires oxygen
- type of acid produced by anaerobic respiration
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- body system oxygen enters from the environment
- organelle where aerobic respiration occurs
- respiration is an ________-controlled reaction
- body system glucose enters from the environment
- type of respiration that does not require oxygen
- type of reaction that transfers energy to the environment
13 Clues: gas produced by respiration • type of respiration that requires oxygen • organelle where aerobic respiration occurs • body system oxygen enters from the environment • respiration is an ________-controlled reaction • type of acid produced by anaerobic respiration • body system glucose enters from the environment • type of respiration that does not require oxygen • ...
ECOSYSTEMS 2023-12-12
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- An animal that strictly eats plants
- An organism that is caught and eaten by another organism of a different species
- An animal that eats both animals and plants
- Any non-living things in an environment such as water and air
- Any creature that eats plants and/or other animals
- Any type of plants that produce nutriets using the sun and water
- The overall weather in an area over a period of time
- Water(rain, snow, hail, sleet) that falls from the sky
- What a living organism consumes on a regular basis
- A specific type of an ecosystem such as a desert
- A biome that has very low precipitation
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- All the interacring parts of a biological community and its environment
- An animal that eats other animals
- The system in which different living things consume
- Any living things living an environment such as humans and birds
- An organism that catches and eats other organisms of a different species
- A biome that is very flat and doesn't have many trees
- How hot or cold something is
- A charecteristic that helps and organism survive in its environment
- A more specific classification for grouping organisms
20 Clues: How hot or cold something is • An animal that eats other animals • An animal that strictly eats plants • A biome that has very low precipitation • An animal that eats both animals and plants • A specific type of an ecosystem such as a desert • Any creature that eats plants and/or other animals • What a living organism consumes on a regular basis • ...
Ecology Vocabulary 2024-04-05
Across
- Part of Earth where life exists
- Group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area
- Animal that is hunted and eaten by other animals
- Organism that can produce its own food
- relationship between organisms and environment
- Web Complex network of interconnected food chains
- Level Position an organism occupies in a food chain
- Factors Living Components of an ecosystem
- Animal that feeds on dead or decaying organisms
- individual living thing carries life functions
- Breaks down dead organisms
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- Animal that feeds both plants and animals
- Organism that cannot produce food
- Factors Non living components of an ecosystem
- Non living components of an eco system
- A community of organisms interacting with physical environment
- Chain Series of organisms in which each one is eaten by others
- Animal that hunts, kills, feeds on other animals
- All populations of different species that interact and live in same place
- Environment where an organism lives
- Organisms that can produce its own food using energy from environment
- an animal or plant on or in which a parasite lives
- Animal that only eats other animals
- Organism that only eats plants
- Organism that obtains energy by consuming organisms
25 Clues: Breaks down dead organisms • Organism that only eats plants • Part of Earth where life exists • Organism that cannot produce food • Environment where an organism lives • Animal that only eats other animals • Non living components of an eco system • Organism that can produce its own food • Animal that feeds both plants and animals • Factors Living Components of an ecosystem • ...
Bio vocab 2024-04-29
Across
- Any part on the Earth occupied by living things
- An organism that decomposes organic material
- A diagram that shows the flow of energy among a set of organisms
- The biotic and abiotic aspects of an environment
- Eats meat and plants
- A position on the food chain
- Creates energy from sunlight
- An organism that gets energy by taking nutrients from a host
- All the different organisms of different species in one given area
- Organisms that can't make their own food so they eat other organisms
- The place where an organism lives
- Only eats meat
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- Several intertwined food chains
- An individual of a species
- Only eats plants
- Parts of an environment that are living
- A food source for predators
- The study of the environment
- Consumes organisms for energy
- The organism that a parasite takes nutrients from
- Parts of an environment that aren't living
- An animal that gets food by eating dead plants and animals
- Organisms that make their own food
- Obtains food mainly by killing and eating other animals
- All the individuals of a species in one given area
25 Clues: Only eats meat • Only eats plants • Eats meat and plants • An individual of a species • A food source for predators • The study of the environment • A position on the food chain • Creates energy from sunlight • Consumes organisms for energy • Several intertwined food chains • The place where an organism lives • Organisms that make their own food • ...
