Can you get them all?
Across
- 4. Organism that breaks down dead organic material.
- 9. A relationship between individuals of two species in which one species obtains food or other benefits from the other without either harming or benefiting the latter
- 10. Consumer Eat primary producers—plants or algae—and nothing else
- 12. A repeating cycle of processes during which nitrogen moves through both living and non-living things.
- 14. Can be thought of as the ability to cause some kind of change.
- 16. The ecological process by which energy is transferred from living animal to living animal based on the behavior of a predator that captures and kills a prey before eating it.
- 17. An organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.
Down
- 1. The continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere.
- 2. A biogeochemical process that involves the movement of phosphorus through the lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere.
- 3. Association between two different organisms wherein one benefits at the expense of the other.
- 5. A type of symbiotic relationship where all species involved benefit from their interactions.
- 6. A living organism that shapes its environment.
- 7. Nature's way of reusing carbon atoms, which travel from the atmosphere into organisms in the Earth and then back into the atmosphere over and over again.
- 8. Consumer Those that eat the secondary consumers.
- 11. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
- 13. Consumer Organisms that eat primary consumers for energy.
- 15. anything that takes up space and can be weighed.