5th Grade Science C

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Across
  1. 2. a representation of several overlapping food chains in an ecosystem; includes the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers through multiple pathways
  2. 5. a community of interacting living organisms and the physical environment that they live in
  3. 8. living factors in the environment; related to, produced by, or caused by living organisms
  4. 10. process by which pressure from rocks and soil reduces the size or volume of sediments
  5. 12. what something is used for; purpose
  6. 15. something that an organism learns to do as they interact with their world
  7. 16. the process of taking materials ready to be thrown away and converting them into reusable materials
  8. 17. the impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in rock
  9. 19. multiple populations of different organisms that are all able to consistently meet their needs
  10. 21. the movement of weathered material, by wind, water, or ice
  11. 25. a condition that results in a change to the biotic or abiotic factors of an ecosystem
  12. 26. continue to live or exist
  13. 27. anything found in nature that can be used by humans
Down
  1. 1. continue to live or exist
  2. 3. process of breaking down rocks into smaller pieces
  3. 4. fuels formed over millions of years from the remains of ancient organisms
  4. 6. rock that forms when sediments are compacted and cemented together
  5. 7. a physical feature on Earth that occurs naturally
  6. 9. prevention of wasteful use of resources
  7. 11. a part or group of parts of an organism
  8. 13. process by which sediment is deposited in a new place
  9. 14. automatic behaviors that are inherited
  10. 17. information about long ago based on similarities in a collection of fossils from the same geographical area
  11. 18. throwing away or getting rid of products no longer needed
  12. 20. non-living elements of the environment that influence the way that organisms and ecosystems function
  13. 22. a characteristic that is passed from the parent to offspring
  14. 23. process of binding and hardening of sediments into hard rock
  15. 24. the surrounding or conditions in which an organism must survive