Ecosystems

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Across
  1. 2. Discharges into the atmosphere from such sources as smokestacks, residential chimneys, motor vehicles, locomotives, and aircraft.
  2. 4. something that is hunted
  3. 6. A process occurring in the cells of green plants and some micro-organisms in which solar energy is transformed into stored chemical energy
  4. 7. An area that is regularly saturated by surface water or groundwater
  5. 9. eats only plants
  6. 10. an organism that produces it's own energy
  7. 11. The breakdown of organic matter by bacteria and fungi
  8. 12. an organisms home
  9. 13. A type of wetland that is dominated by woody vegetation
  10. 17. Simple rootless plants that grow in sunlit waters
  11. 18. eats only meat
Down
  1. 1. All the living material in a given area
  2. 3. A type of wetland
  3. 5. The wearing away of land surface by wind or water
  4. 6. Any substance introduced into the environment that adversely affects the usefulness of a resource.
  5. 8. how living things interact with the environment around them
  6. 14. Food ___: The complex feeding network occurring within and between food chains in an ecosystem
  7. 15. something that hunts
  8. 16. eats both plants and meat