Chapter 2 Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. An organism that can make its own food.
  2. 5. Many food chains overlapping each other in an ecosystem.
  3. 6. Consumers that only eat plants.
  4. 9. Process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen.
  5. 11. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.
  6. 13. An area that receives less that 25 cm of rain per year.
  7. 14. The top of the tall trees, that forms a leafy roof.
  8. 16. Carnivore that feeds on bodies of dead organisms.
  9. 17. Shows the amount of energy that moves form one feeding level to another in a food web.
  10. 19. Typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time in an area.
Down
  1. 1. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
  2. 3. Consumers that eat only animals.
  3. 4. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
  4. 7. The study of where organisms live.
  5. 8. A process in which the plates of the Earth move and the continents move with it.
  6. 10. An organisms that is carried into a new location by people.
  7. 12. Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
  8. 13. An organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms.
  9. 15. A layer below the canopy that consists of smaller trees and vines.
  10. 18. The movement of organisms from one place to another.