Biogeochemical Cycles Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. living parts of the ecosystem
  2. 5. a community (biotic)and nonliving parts (abiotic)
  3. 6. cycle by which water moves through the biosphere
  4. 8. process by which nutrients becomes highly concentrated in a body of water, leading to algal blooms and low-oxygen waters that can kill fish and other aquatic life
  5. 10. cycle that matter moves from the atmosphere to the soil, to living organisms, and back to the atmosphere
  6. 11. organisms that make their own food through photosynthesis
Down
  1. 1. cycle that moves from the atmosphere into organisms and back into the atmosphere
  2. 2. cycle that moves through rocks, water, sediments, and organisms
  3. 4. Respiration process by which plants and animals use glucose to produce energy; occurs in the mitochondria
  4. 7. nonliving parts of the ecosystem
  5. 9. process by which plants and some other organisms produce glucose; occurs in the chloroplasts