Life Science Module Test Vocabulary Review
Across
- 3. When water changes from a liquid to a gas
- 5. Resources that are consumed from an ecosystem
- 9. The location in a cell where photosynthesis takes place
- 13. When producers use carbon dioxide and water to make glucose and oxygen.
- 15. An organism that eats other organisms
- 16. A consumer that eats both producers and consumers
- 19. Benefits humans receive from ecosystems
- 23. A living thing that CANNOT do photosynthesis and has to eat it's food
- 24. The number and variety of different species in an area
- 25. Anything that prevents a population from increasing
- 27. The relationship where one organism (predator) hunts, kills, and eats the other (prey)
- 32. The community AND abiotic factors in a specific area
- 33. When two or more organisms need the same resource at the same time
- 34. A consumer that eats producers
- 35. When organisms move in from another environment
- 36. The type of symbiosis where one organism benefits and the other is harmed
- 39. A group of organisms of the same species in a specific area
- 41. first species to populate an area during succession
- 42. A diagram that shows the amount of energy at each feeding level
- 43. A living thing that can do photosynthesis to make its own food
- 44. A type of cellular respiration that makes energy WITHOUT oxygen.
- 45. All of the populations in a specific area
- 48. The location in a cell where stage 2 of cellular respiration takes place
- 49. The location in a cell where stage 1 of cellular respiration takes place
- 50. a group of similar organisms that can reproduce with one another
- 51. An organism that makes their own food through photosynthesis
Down
- 1. When organisms use glucose and oxygen to make carbon dioxide, water and energy.
- 2. The practice of using less of a resouce so it can last longer
- 4. A nonliving part of an ecosystem
- 6. A consumer that eats other consumers
- 7. The type of symbiosis where both organisms benefit
- 8. The substances at the BEGINNING of a chemical reaction
- 10. The ability of an ecosystem to maintin biodiversity and production indefinitely
- 11. The type of symbiosis where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected
- 12. When water changes from a gas back into a liquid in a cloud
- 13. The new substances at the END of a chemical reaction
- 14. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed, but where soil and organisms already exist
- 17. When water falls to the ground from a cloud as rain, snow, sleet, etc.
- 18. The largest population that an ecosystem can support
- 20. The green chemical that traps light energy in photosynthesis
- 21. The practice of helping a degraded or destroyed ecosystem recover from damage
- 22. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
- 26. Non-native species introduced by humans that outcompetes native species in an ecosystem.
- 28. Organisms in the nitrogen cycle that can both fix and free nitrogen.
- 29. many interconnected food chains in an ecosystem
- 30. An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms and waste
- 31. When organisms leave an environment
- 37. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients
- 38. A living part of an ecosystem
- 40. Resources in an ecosystem that are used, but not consumed
- 46. One living thing
- 47. A close relationship between organisms of different species