Local Environment

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Across
  1. 4. The process of marking out a number of small, randomly selected square areas
  2. 6. The process involving how cells use energy and involving the rates of metabolism
  3. 9. A measurement of acidity or alkalinity based on the concentration of Hydrogen
  4. 10. Organisms that can produce their own nutrients from non-living sources
  5. 11. Consumers that break down or decompose dead organisms (decay of organic material)
  6. 13. A non-living chemical or physical factor in the environment such as temperature, humidity, rainfall, sunlight and windspeed
  7. 14. The overflowing fullness, ample sufficiency, profusion and copious supply, strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number (The size of a population)
  8. 15. A relationship in which two organisms compete for a limited resource
  9. 16. Is the enrichment of lakes and waterways as a result of the leaching of nutrients. This often causes excessive growth of aquatic plants
  10. 17. The measurement on the concentration of salt within an environment
  11. 19. Factors relating to land environments
  12. 20. The total amount of mass within an ecosystem
  13. 22. The inclusion of both the abiotic factors and the biotic factors that constitute an organism's surroundings
  14. 23. A relationship between two organisms in which only one benefits and the other is unaffected
  15. 25. A unit to measure the amount of luminance
  16. 27. Is any feature or characteristic which helps an organism survive in its environment
  17. 28. Any organism which obtains energy from other organisms
Down
  1. 1. An animal which obtains energy from plants and vegetation
  2. 2. Relating to nutrition or feeding
  3. 3. A factor created by a living thing or any living component within an environment in which the action of the organism affects the life of the ecosystem and/or another organism
  4. 5. Factors relating to water environments
  5. 7. A relationship in which one organism directly hinders the growth or development of another by releasing toxins
  6. 8. A relationship in which one organism lives in or on another organism and feeds from it, causing harm to the host
  7. 9. an organism that eats other organisms, usually thought of as involving the consumption of animals by animals but it can also mean the eating of plants
  8. 12. The process where chlorophyll synthesis food from carbon dioxide and water (in the presence of sunlight) to generate oxygen and energy in the form of glucose
  9. 16. A system that includes all living organisms (biotic factors) in an area as well as its physical environment (abiotic factors) functioning together (interacting) as a unit
  10. 18. An animal which obtains energy from flesh or animals
  11. 21. The location or arrangement of continuing or successive organisms is space or time. (The geographical range of an organism or population)
  12. 24. A relationship between two organisms in which both benefit
  13. 26. The process of marking out a straight line across an area, noting the types of organism/life present, and plotting their position along this line on a diagram