Environmental Systems Vocabulary
Across
- 1. level- position of an organism in a food chain, food web, or an ecological pyramid
- 4. Chain shows energy flow from sun -> producers-> consumers
- 5. also called biological community, in biology, an interacting group of various species in a common location
- 8. Consumer 1st consumers
- 9. eats living things
- 10. ample, abundant, bountiful describe a more than adequate supply of something. Plentiful suggests an over-adequate quantity: a plentiful supply.
- 12. deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
- 13. amount of one species in an ecosystem
- 14. is an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
- 15. Web what eats what
- 17. eats dead animals
- 18. n ecology, the term “niche” describes the role an organism plays in a community
- 19. nonliving.
- 21. brakes down organic material
- 24. Consumer 2nd consumer
- 25. An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
Down
- 2. make their own food
- 3. must eat food
- 6. eat both nonliving and living
- 7. To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil
- 11. eat nonliving things
- 13. The meaning of Perish is To die or be destroyed or killed.
- 16. is a kind of action that occurs as two or more objects have an effect upon one another
- 20. living.
- 22. is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- 23. individual living thing.