Ecosystems and Global Biodiversity
Across
- 4. how susceptible a system is to damage or disruption
- 6. a linear sequence showing how energy is transferred between organisms
- 7. the ability of a system to recover after disturbance
- 9. the health and functioning of an ecosystem
- 10. amplifies change and pushes a system further from equilibrium
- 13. the position an organism occupies in a food chain
- 14. Flow the movement of energy through an ecosystem from producers to consumers
Down
- 1. ability of ecosystems to produce resources and absorb waste
- 2. stabilises a system by counteracting change
- 3. the variety of life in an ecosystem including species, genes, and ecosystems
- 5. the usefulness of nature to humans (e.g. resources, services)
- 8. systems that occur in nature with interacting living and non-living components
- 10. an organism (like plants) that makes its own food using sunlight
- 11. an organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms
- 12. the inherent worth of nature regardless of human use