Ecosystems
Across
- 4. a large community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in a particular area
- 5. a group of individuals of the same species living and interbreeding within a given area.
- 6. a living thing that isn't a plant or human
- 8. often stored by cells in biomolecules, particularly carbohydrates (sugars) and lipids
- 11. a living component of an ecosystem
- 12. a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life.
- 13. the process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy.
Down
- 1. any organism that can't make its own food.
- 2. an interacting group of various species in a common location
- 3. made up of the parts of Earth where life exists
- 4. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
- 5. multicellular organisms
- 7. is a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
- 9. the role an organism plays in a community
- 10. organism that breaks down dead organic material