Ecosystems and Energy Flow

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Across
  1. 2. organisms that eat dead organisms
  2. 5. Factors all nonliving things in an ecosystem
  3. 12. organism that makes its own food using
  4. 14. law of Thermodynamics when energy is transformed from one form to other, some of the usable energy is lost to the surroundings.
  5. 15. the consumers who get their food by breaking down dead organisms
  6. 18. Any living thing
  7. 21. study of flow of energy
  8. 22. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
  9. 23. when a plant uses sunlight to make sugar molecules
  10. 24. law of Thermodynamics energy can neither be created nor destroyed by can be transformed from one form to other
  11. 25. study of how organisms interact with each other and their surroundings
  12. 26. All individuals of one species that occupy a particular geographic area
  13. 27. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
  14. 28. all plant life in a specific habitat
Down
  1. 1. respiration process of breaking down food to yield energy
  2. 3. part of the Earth where living things thrive and live
  3. 4. Factors all living things in an ecosystem
  4. 6. cycle a process in which nitrogen is cycled between the atmosphere, bacteria, and other organisms
  5. 7. web a diagram that shows many feeding relationships that are possible in an ecosystem
  6. 8. cycle process by which carbon is cycled between the atmosphere, land, water, and organisms
  7. 9. level Each step in the transfer of energy through a food chain or food web in an ecosystem
  8. 10. a group of different species that are commonly found together in a location
  9. 11. Pyramid a graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem
  10. 13. all animal life in a specific habitat
  11. 16. fixing bacteria organisms that can fix atmospheric nitrogen into chemical compounds
  12. 17. where a group of organisms live
  13. 19. an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
  14. 20. organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms.
  15. 23. cycle the movement of phosphorous from environment to organisms and then back to the environment
  16. 28. chain a sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organism eats another organism