biology

5. Producers or self-sustaining organisms that can manufacture their own food.
6. The amount of energy in living organisms.
7. The process of extracting inorganic molecules from the environment and converting them into high energy organic nutrients.
9. Consumers that can eat both plant and animals.
11. Pertain to the physical nature of the land surface.
12. Plants that grow in very dry environments
14. Consumers or living things that cannot make their own food; they obtain their energy by eating producers and/or consumers.
15. Meiosis in sperm cell that takes place in the testes of male species.

1. Dark, spongy and jellylike substance that is formed when organic substances fully decompose
2. Protects the bacterial cell from drying and is used for surface attachment.
3. Viruses that attack or infect bacteria
4. Meiosis in egg cell that takes place in the ovaries of females.
8. Pertains to the alkalinity or acidity of the soil
10. Animals with stable body temperatures; no matter where they are, their body temperature does not change.
13. Animals that have unstable body temperatures; their body temperatures are affected by the environmental temperature.