Ecology Part 1: The Biosphere

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Across
  1. 4. All of the living parts of an environment, such as plants, animals, and bacteria.
  2. 5. An assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area.
  3. 6. A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms.
  4. 7. Consumers that eat both plants and meat.
  5. 11. Water vapor made by plants.
  6. 12. The entire planet with all its organisms and physical environments.
  7. 14. Consumers that eat plants.
  8. 18. A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
  9. 21. Water droplets falling to the earth.
  10. 23. Consume detritus particles (pieces of dead plants or animals)
  11. 24. Each step in a food chain or food web forms a ____ level.
  12. 26. Water vapor forming droplets.
  13. 29. Another name for “heterotrophs.”
  14. 30. All of the nonliving parts of an environment, such as plants, animals, and bacteria.
Down
  1. 1. Organisms that can capture energy from nonliving sources and convert it into forms that living cells.
  2. 2. Uses chemical energy to produce carbohydrates without sunlight.
  3. 3. A network that contains all the food chains in an ecosystem.
  4. 5. Consumers that kill and eat other animals.
  5. 8. Liquid water becoming water vapor.
  6. 9. Shows the relative number of individuals in the trophic levels of a food web.
  7. 10. Primary ____ are also called “autotrophs.”
  8. 13. Uses light energy to convert CO2 and H2O into O2 and sugars.
  9. 15. All the organisms that live in a place and their physical environment.
  10. 16. Shows the relative amount of energy in the trophic levels of a food web.
  11. 17. A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area.
  12. 18. Consume the carcasses of other animals killed by predators or natural causes.
  13. 19. Chemically break down organic matter to release nutrients. ex: bacteria & fungi
  14. 20. Organisms that acquire energy from other organisms by eating them.
  15. 22. Shows the relative amount of biological matter in the trophic levels of a food web.
  16. 25. Study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their physical environment.
  17. 27. A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.
  18. 28. Water moving through the earth to the oceans.