APES: Chapter 3: Vocabulary Quiz (Ecosystems)

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Across
  1. 4. organism that feeds on some or all parts of plants or on other producers.
  2. 6. rate at which an ecosystem's producers capture and store a given amount of chemical energy amass in a given length of time.
  3. 9. animal can use both plants and animals as food sources.
  4. 11. diagram representing the flow of energy through each trophic level in a doos change or food web with each energy transfer only 10% of usable energy.
  5. 12. cycle collects, purifies, and distributes the earth's fixed supply of water from the environment to living organisms and then back to the environment.
  6. 14. inner most layer of the atmosphere.
  7. 16. complex process that occurs in the cells of most living things, in which nutrient organic molecules such as glucose combine with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water, and energy.
  8. 18. rate at which all the plants in an ecosystem produce net useful chemical energy.
  9. 20. whole mass of air surrounding Earth.
  10. 22. natural effect that releases heat into the atmosphere near the earth's surface.
  11. 24. organism digests parts of dead organisms and cast off fragments and wastes of living organisms by breaking down the organic compounds that return to the soil and water for use as nutrients to producers.
Down
  1. 1. z the where where life is found in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.
  2. 2. animal that animal-eating eating animals.
  3. 3. consumer organism that feeds on detritus, parts of dead organisms, and cast-off fragments and wastes of living organisms.
  4. 5. organism that feeds only on primary consumers.
  5. 7. organism that uses solar energy or chemical energy to manufacture the organic compounds it needs as nutrients from simple inorganic compounds obtained from the environment.
  6. 8. Earth's hot core, thick mantle comprised mostly of rock and a thin outer crust that contains most of the earth's rock, soil, and sediment.
  7. 10. any chemicals an organism must take in to live, grow, or reproduce.
  8. 13. organism that cannot make their own food and gets nutrients by feeding on producers or other consumers.
  9. 15. mixture of inorganic minerals, decaying organic matter, water, air, and living organisms.
  10. 17. all organisms that are the same number of energy transfer away from the original source of energy (sun) that enters an ecosystem.
  11. 18. natural process that recycles nutrients in various chemical forms from the nonliving environment to living organisms and then back to the nonliving environment.
  12. 19. complex process in the cells of green plants that captures light energy and converts it to chemical bond energy.
  13. 20. water-saturated saturated layers of sand, gravel, or bedrock that can yield an economically significant amount of water.
  14. 21. eath's liquid water, frozen water, and gaseous water.
  15. 23. organic matter produces photosynthetic other photosynthesic producers