Climate Cafe Ecosytems

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Across
  1. 1. organisms that eat primary consumers for energy
  2. 4. the position of an organism in the food chain
  3. 8. organisms that make their own food
  4. 9. an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
  5. 10. living or once living components of a community
  6. 12. an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals
  7. 14. he process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers
  8. 15. an organism that feeds mostly on plants
  9. 19. he rate at which energy is added to the bodies of a group of organisms
  10. 23. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
  11. 26. a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life
  12. 28. a graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem
  13. 29. The process by which organisms exchange gases, especially oxygen and carbon dioxide, with the environment
  14. 33. the process where microscopic organisms like bacteria or other types of decomposing organisms, break down nitrogen-containing chemicals from dead organic matter, into simple substances like ammonia
  15. 34. organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms
  16. 35. an organism that regularly consumes a variety of material, including plants, animals, algae, and fungi
  17. 36. formed when the number of individuals or biomass is minimum and increases at each trophic level
  18. 37. when a climax community or intermediate community is impacted by a disturbance
  19. 38. occurs when a part of the atmosphere saturates itself with water vapour and when the right temperature comes it condenses and precipitates
  20. 39. when a new area of land is populated by a group of species for the first time
Down
  1. 2. the process that changes liquid water to gaseous water
  2. 3. process by which food is made by bacteria or other living things using chemicals as the energy source, typically in the absence of sunlight
  3. 5. group of photosynthetic microbes that occur in most inland waters
  4. 6. ability to cause some kind of change
  5. 7. the non-living components of the ecosystem
  6. 11. the removal of heat from a system in such a manner that vapor is converted into liquid
  7. 13. the process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy
  8. 16. he weight or total quantity of living organisms of one animal or plant species
  9. 17. microscopic marine algae
  10. 18. the sum of all processes by which water moves from the land surface to the atmosphere via evaporation and transpiration
  11. 20. the conversion of nutriment into a usable form
  12. 21. organisms that carry out photosynthesis
  13. 22. an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy
  14. 24. organisms that obtain energy by the oxidation of reduced compounds
  15. 25. an animal that obtains its nutrition by eating primary consumers and secondary consumers
  16. 27. the loss or removal of nitrogen or nitrogen compounds
  17. 30. an organism that eats plants and provides the energy needed for other types of consumers to use
  18. 31. the species that first colonize new habitats created by disturbance
  19. 32. a type of heterotroph, or organisms that consume dead and decaying organic matter