Carbon Cycling and Ecosystems
Across
- 2. Part of a plant that takes in water from soil
- 3. A pattern that repeats over and over
- 6. Large area covered mainly with trees
- 9. Leftover material from living things
- 11. Living thing that eats plants or other animals
- 12. Something eaten to get energy
- 14. Gas breathed out by animals and used by plants
- 16. Power that lets things move and grow
- 17. Simple food made by plants from sunlight
- 19. Living thing that makes its own food
- 22. Main source of energy for Earth
- 23. Tiny living things that break down dead plants and animals
Down
- 1. Dirt on the ground that plants grow in
- 4. The planet we live on
- 5. Matter from plants or animals that have died
- 7. Very large body of salt water
- 8. Gas or solid found in all living things and fuels
- 10. Clear liquid needed by all living things
- 12. Land where crops and animals are raised
- 13. Gas in air needed for breathing
- 15. Living thing like a mushroom that breaks down dead stuff
- 18. Invisible gas around us that we breathe
- 20. Flat green part of a plant that takes in sunlight
- 21. Large body of water surrounded by land
- 24. Large plant with a trunk and branches