Biogeochemical cycle

2. collection of all of the different population that live in one area
7. the wearing away of the upper layer of soil
10. organisms that eat only plants
11. organisms that only eat animals
14. organisms that eat both plants and animals
17. a level of feeding in the food chain
18. all of the individuals of a species that live in the same area
21. producers on the ocean floor that produces their own food using chemicals as energy
23. an interaction between two organisms of unlike species in which one of them acts as predator that captures and feeds on the other orginizams that serves as the prey
26. the process of turning from liquid into vapor
27. release of vapor through the pores of the skin or the stomata of plant tissue
28. collection of organisms and nonliving things, such as climate, soil, water, and rocks, in an area

1. organisms that eat dead plants and animals
3. the process of turning bacteria into nitrogen gas
4. measure of the total amount, or dry mass, of organisms in a given area
5. another name for consumer
6. the movement of a particular chemical through living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem
8. detritivore that break down plants and animals
9. the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, ect...
12. a diagram that compares the energy used by producers, primary consumer, and other trophic level
13. a group of organisms so similar to one another that they can breed and produce fertile offspring
15. process by which light energy is converted to chemical energy; produces sugar, and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water
16. shows the feeding relationships of a single chain of producers and consumers
19. another name for producers
20. all organisms and the part of Earth where they exist
22. organisms that make their own food
24. complex network of feeding relationships and the related flow of energy
25. orginizams that get energy by eating other orginizams
29. average long-term weather patterns of a region