Chapter Review Crossword
Across
- 3. element found in DNA and ATP that has its own cycle
- 5. rapid growth of algae due to fertilizer run off
- 7. photosynthesizing organisms
- 9. organisms that eat both meat and plants
- 10. when water evaporates from the leaves of a plant
- 12. nitrogen -fixing __________________ that take nitrogen from the air and make it available to plants
- 15. biome primarily found on the equator
- 16. type of biome with low water and low temperatures
- 17. organisms at the top of an energy pyramid
- 20. organisms that return dead material back to the bottom of an energy pyramid
- 23. carbon in the form of coal, oil, or natural gas
- 25. chemicals building up as they pass from organism to organism in a food chain
- 26. eat other organisms for energy
- 27. the cold forests in Canada, Scandinavia, and Russia fall under this category
- 28. the % of energy that is transferred between trophic levels
Down
- 1. African Savannah and the Great Plains fall under this biome category
- 2. organisms that only eat meat
- 4. rain, snow, sleet, hail
- 6. organisms that only eat producers
- 8. the % of energy that plants take from the sun
- 11. organisms that consume plants for energy on an energy pyramid
- 13. a group of organisms of the same species
- 14. a community of organisms + abiotic factors
- 18. type of biome with low water and high temperatures
- 19. shows a variety of feeding relationships in an ecosystem
- 21. the band of Earth where most of the Sun's energy falls
- 22. a climate that has all four seasons
- 24. source of most energy on earth and drive most cycles