Ch.3 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. get nourishments by feeding on freshly dead organisms
  2. 5. organisms that cannot produce their own food
  3. 9. movement of matter
  4. 10. the ozone layer
  5. 11. eat both plants and animals
  6. 13. cycle where there is movement of phosphorus through water, Earth's crust, and living organisms
  7. 14. make the food they need from compounds in soil, carbon dioxide, in air and water, using the energy of sunlight
  8. 17. layer ion which weather occurs, and only layer in which organisms can survive
  9. 19. precipitation that falls on land and flows over land surfaces into streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, and the ocean
  10. 21. underground layers of sand, gravel, and water-bearing rock
  11. 24. consists of Earth's mantle, core, and thin outer crust
  12. 26. sequence of organisms that serves as a source of nutrients of energy for the next level organism
  13. 28. consists of the parts of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere where life exists
  14. 30. producers changes in light into chemical energy stored primarily in glucose
  15. 31. cycle in which different compounds of carbon circulate through the biosphere, atmosphere, and parts of the geosphere and hydrosphere
  16. 32. flow of energy through ecosystems, complex network of interconnected food chains
Down
  1. 1. consumers animals that feed on primary consumers
  2. 2. primary consumers that eat mostly green plants or algae
  3. 3. water that seeps deeper through the soil
  4. 6. all gaseous, liquid, and solid water on or near Earth's surface
  5. 7. consumers that feed on both primary and secondary consumers
  6. 8. solar energy warms the troposphere as it reflects from Earth's surface
  7. 12. rate at which an ecosystem's producers convert radiant energy (sunlight) into chemical energy
  8. 15. cycle that collects, purifies, and distr5ibutes Earth's fixed supply of water
  9. 16. is an envelope of gases surrounding the planet
  10. 18. feed mostly on other animals
  11. 20. respiration produces energy in the absence of oxygen, also called fermentation
  12. 22. designation for an organism based on its methods of making or finding food and feeding behavior
  13. 23. consumers that get their nutrients by breaking down nonliving organic matter
  14. 25. the rate at which producers use photosynthesis to produce and store chemical energy, minus the rate at which they use some of this stored chemical energy through cellular respiration
  15. 27. respiration which uses oxygen and glucose to produce energy
  16. 29. cycle in which nitrogen in different chemical forms moves from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment