Final Summative Assignment Ecology

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Across
  1. 5. A variety of different things
  2. 8. The variety within a species
  3. 9. A repeated pathway of a particular nutrient or element from the environment through one or more organisms and back into the environment
  4. 10. A large region with similar climate or vegetation
  5. 13. 1 of the earths 4 spheres made of water
  6. 16. Any living thing
  7. 17. All living organisms in an ecosystem
  8. 18. Land that has a marsh or swamp
  9. 21. 1 of the 4 spheres that is earths outer shell
  10. 22. The study of organisms interactions in their environment
  11. 27. Substances needed to get energy
  12. 28. The position of an organism on the food chain
  13. 30. How plants turn sunlight into energy
Down
  1. 1. The process of cells using oxygen to break down sugar and get energy
  2. 2. To maintain something
  3. 3. A part of a plant cell where photosynthesis takes place
  4. 4. Organisms that create their own energy
  5. 6. The number of different species in an ecosystem
  6. 7. Organisms like fungi, bacteria, or worms
  7. 11. Anything that constrains a populations size and sloes it or stops it from growing
  8. 12. A way to describe and organize who eats who in an ecosystem
  9. 14. All non-living things in an ecosystem
  10. 15. The earths sphere that is all living things and where they are found
  11. 19. The biological environment of an area
  12. 20. All possible paths of a food chain in an ecosystem
  13. 23. The variety of organisms in an ecosystem
  14. 24. A way to show how much energy an organism gets, also known as an energy pyramid
  15. 25. 1 of earths 4 spheres made of gases
  16. 26. The green pigment in plants that uses light energy for photosynthesis
  17. 29. An organism in an ecosystem that gets its energy from another organism