Biology Vocab Terms

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Across
  1. 3. Place where an organism or a biological population normally lives or occurs.
  2. 4. A person who uses goods or services
  3. 5. organisms that carry out photon capture to acquire energy
  4. 7. The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
  5. 9. an organism, esp. a soil bacterium or fungus that decomposes organic material.
  6. 11. The weather in some location averaged over some long period of time; the prevailing psychological state
  7. 12. a number of things sharing a specified characteristic and following one after the other.
  8. 15. Native to or inhabiting the sea
  9. 17. Of or relating to non-living organisms
  10. 18. The different levels represent different groups of organisms that might compose a food chain.
  11. 20. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
  12. 21. The wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix
  13. 22. level each of several hierarchical levels in an ecosystem
  14. 23. not extreme in behavior
Down
  1. 1. Of or relating to living organisms
  2. 2. Any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue
  3. 3. Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants
  4. 5. hardy species which are the first to colonize previously damaged ecosystems
  5. 6. An organism that produces that something
  6. 8. An interacting group of various species in a common location.
  7. 10. a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate
  8. 13. Any animal that feeds on flesh; a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal
  9. 14. a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions
  10. 16. operating or living or growing on land
  11. 19. An animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances
  12. 23. the sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes,