Nature of Ecosystems
Across
- 4. a source normally unavailable to producers such as fossilized remains, rocks, and deep-sea sediments
- 6. feed on other organisms
- 8. exemplified by the carbon and nitrogen cycles
- 10. feed on dead organic material in soil
- 12. feed on plants and animals:example. Humans
- 14. producers take in inorganic nutrients from the environment
- 17. describes the continuous movement of nitrogen from atmosphere to the ground & sea
- 18. a community along with its physical and chemical environment.
- 19. complicated relationships that exist in natural ecosystems
Down
- 1. feed on other animals
- 2. make their own food
- 3. when producers absorb solar energy
- 5. sedimentary cycle that consists of the movement of phosphorus from rocks to soil & sea
- 7. exemplified by the phosphorus cycle
- 9. through which chemicals move along food chains, perhaps never entering an exchange pool
- 11. a source from which organisms do normally take chemicals, such as the atmosphere
- 13. describes the continuous movement of water on and below the earths surface
- 15. both land and aquatic organisms exchange carbon dioxide with the atmosphere
- 16. feed on solely plants or algae