Ecology Crossword

5. a group of organisms with distinctive traits and, for sexually reproducing organisms, can mate and produce fertile offspring
8. ice in frozen soil layers
9. the smallest and most fundamental structural and functional units of life
10. make the nutrients they need from compounds and energy obtained from their environment
11. the chance that something will happen
12. the astounding variety of different organisms
13. living things that interact with their environment and with each other
15. the management of natural resources with the goal of minimizing resource waste and sustaining resource supplies for current and future generations
17. consists of all of the water on or near the earth’s surface
20. the place where a population or an individual organism normally lives
21. procedures carried out under controlled conditions to gather information and test ideas
24. any in the environment that is harmful to the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms

1. large regions such as forests, deserts, and grasslands, with distinct climates and certain species adapted to them
2. compounds contain at least two carbon atoms combined with atoms of one or more other elements
3. collecting waste materials and processing them into new materials
4. a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same place at the same time
6. feed on the wastes or dead bodies of other organisms
7. reasoning involves using logic to arrive at a specific conclusion based on a generalization or premise
11. a complex chemical process that plants use to provide food for themselves and for us and most other animals
14. a sequence of organisms, each of which serves as a source of food or energy for the next
16. another form of kinetic energy
18. the capacity to do work or transfer heat
19. anything that has mass and takes up space
22. set of organisms interacting with one another and with their environment of nonliving matter
23. an approximate representation or simulation of a system being studied