Ecosystem Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide
  2. 4. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
  3. 6. An organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
  4. 8. Plankton consisting of microscopic plants.
  5. 15. An animal that feeds on plants.
  6. 16. An animal that feeds on flesh.
  7. 17. An animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
  8. 18. Renewable organic material that comes from plants and animals
  9. 19. Process by which an element or compound transitions from its liquid state to its gaseous state below the temperature at which it boils
  10. 20. The process by which plants give off water vapor through the stomata in their leaves.
  11. 22. The sum of all processes by which water moves from the land surface to the atmosphere via evaporation and transpiration.
  12. 23. A form of water, such as rain, snow, or sleet, that condenses from the atmosphere, becomes too heavy to remain suspended, and falls to the Earth's surface.
  13. 24. Organisms that carry out photosynthesis.
  14. 25. An organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
Down
  1. 1. A type of heterotroph, or organisms that consume dead and decaying organic matter known as detritus to obtain energy and nutrition.
  2. 2. The rate of production of new biomass by an individual, population, or community; the fertility or capacity of a given habitat or area.
  3. 5. A class of organisms that obtain their energy through the oxidation of inorganic molecules, such as iron and magnesium
  4. 7. Photosynthetic microscopic organisms that are technically bacteria
  5. 8. An organism that produces organic compounds from simple substances such as water and carbon dioxide; an autotroph.
  6. 9. An organism that derives the organic compounds and energy it needs from the consumption of other organisms; a heterotroph.
  7. 10. Process during which the nitrogen compound is released back into the atmosphere by converting nitrate into gaseous nitrogen (N)
  8. 11. Transferred between organisms in food webs from producers to consumers
  9. 12. The production portion of carbon dioxide in an ecosystem's carbon flux
  10. 13. The biological process by which chemical energy is converted into carbohydrates for the organism's food.
  11. 14. 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
  12. 16. The process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water
  13. 21. The process through which an organism incorporates nutrients from outside its body to the more complex structures needed inside of it.