Ecosystems and Energy Review

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Across
  1. 2. One organism hunts and eats another.
  2. 4. Process by which organisms release energy from food.
  3. 7. Movement of carbon through the Earth’s systems.
  4. 9. Illness that can affect populations and ecosystems.
  5. 12. Living parts of an ecosystem (plants, animals, bacteria).
  6. 13. Long-term changes in temperature and weather patterns.
  7. 16. A community of living organisms and their environment.
  8. 17. Process by which plants make food using sunlight.
  9. 18. Non-native organisms that disrupt ecosystems.
Down
  1. 1. How organisms rely on each other to survive.
  2. 3. Damage to the places where organisms live.
  3. 5. Using natural resources faster than they can be replaced.
  4. 6. Organisms fight for the same resources.
  5. 8. Nonliving parts of an ecosystem (water, sunlight, temperature).
  6. 10. Movement of energy from one organism to another.
  7. 11. The maximum number of organisms an environment can support.
  8. 14. Levels in a food chain (producers, consumers, decomposers).
  9. 15. The variety of life in an ecosystem.
  10. 17. Harmful substances released into the environment.