Earth Cycles Review
Across
- 1. Photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and burning fossil fuels are all processes that cycle the element __________ through earth.
- 4. Living things, such as plants, animals, and decomposers are _________ factors in an ecosystem.
- 5. Plants loose water through this process.
- 8. True or false: Consumers can get the nitrogen they need by breathing it in from the atmosphere.
- 10. These organisms breaks down wastes and remains, as well as return inorganic molecules that can be re-used.
Down
- 2. Living in plant roots and in soil, these microscopic organisms fix nitrogen so it can be used by plants.
- 3. This element can be found in DNA and proteins.
- 6. this reservoir is not part of the phosphorous cycle, but is filled with carbon dioxide, water vapor, and gaseous nitrogen.
- 7. Describes an organism's "place" in an ecosystem, determined mainly by habitat and how food is obtained.
- 9. This is the main reservoir in the phosphorous cycle (not the actor, mind you).