Camp Cuyamaca Crossword #1

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Across
  1. 3. Capacity The total number of animals a given area is able to support
  2. 7. Series of continuous changes which return to a starting point
  3. 8. Readily decomposing by natural biological processes
  4. 10. A tribe of Indians who roamed from coast to desert
  5. 11. Everything that surrounds an organism, including living and non-living matter
  6. 12. The passage of chemical energy to producers from consumers
  7. 13. A personal or social moral code
  8. 14. The wearing away of earth or rock by various agents or forces, particularly water and air
  9. 15. A group of living things which are generally found together within an ecosystem
  10. 16. A system of interconnecting food chains
Down
  1. 1. Those animals without a backbone, including annelids, arachnids, crustaceans, insects, and mollusks
  2. 2. Most active during the day
  3. 4. Those plants and animals that are in danger of becoming extinct
  4. 5. A characteristic (physical or behavioral) that improves an organism's chance for survival in a particular habitat
  5. 6. An organism that breaks down or decomposes materials into simpler forms (ie: bacteria, some invertebrates, fungi)
  6. 7. An organism that feeds on living materials
  7. 9. An arrangement of food, water, shelter, and space suitable to an organisms needs
  8. 14. The ability to do work
  9. 16. A break in the Earth's crust where one side moves against the other, resulting in an earthquake