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