Local Environment

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Across
  1. 3. What refers to the quantity or amount of something?
  2. 6. What do you call any organism that eats another organism?
  3. 7. What is a term used for an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal?
  4. 10. What refers to all the living and non-living components that constitute an organism's surroundings?
  5. 12. What is a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a substance, its relative concentration of hydrogen ions in solution called?
  6. 13. What refers to the increasing concentration of a substance, such as a toxic chemical, in the tissues of organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain
  7. 15. What do you call bacteria or fungi that bring about the decay of organic material?
  8. 18. What is the term used for describing the group of animals that eat only plant matter?
  9. 19. What is the term for an organism which only feeds on animals?
  10. 21. What do you call a relationship between two species in which one benefits while the other is not disadvantaged?
  11. 22. What word refers to the SI unit of illuminance, equal to one lumen per square meter?
  12. 23. What is the interaction between organisms trying to obtain resources such as food, water, shelter, mates and nesting sites in an area referred to as?
  13. 24. What term is used for the region inhabited by an organism?
  14. 27. What terms is used for a recurring series of events or metabolic processes in the lifetime of a plant or animal?
  15. 28. What refers to the inhibition of one species by another by the secretion of chemical substances?
  16. 31. What term is used for relating to non-living things?
  17. 32. What refers to organic matter produced by the decomposition of organisms?
  18. 33. What do you call any organism that use light energy to produce organic substances from the material they take in from their physical surroundings?
Down
  1. 1. What term is used for relating to living things?
  2. 2. What term is used for an area of ground surface, used as a sampling unit in population studies?
  3. 4. What word is refer to as a self-sustaining set of organisms and their non-living surroundings?
  4. 5. What kind of organism is an organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense?
  5. 8. What is the chemical process by which chlorophyll containing plant cells use light to make organic compounds from inorganic ones called?
  6. 9. What is a series of chemical reactions which leads to the breakdown of carbohydrates using oxygen and releasing energy called?
  7. 10. What is the enrichment of lakes and waterways as a result of the leaching of nutrients called?
  8. 11. What term is used when something is relating to nutrition or feeding?
  9. 12. What is a term used for 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?
  10. 14. What do you call the close relationship between organisms of different species in which both benefit?
  11. 16. If an organism is relating to the land as opposed to water, what is it called?
  12. 17. What is the amount of dissolved salt in water called?
  13. 20. If an organism is relating to water and lives or grows in water, what is it called?
  14. 25. What refers to the total mass of the organisms in an area?
  15. 26. What is a straight line cross-section of an area called?
  16. 29. What is used for the brain to consume about 20% from you body but makes up only 2% of your body weight?
  17. 30. What is a term used for a genetically determined characteristic of form, function or behaviour that makes an organism suited to live in its environment?