Organisms and Environment

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Across
  1. 4. Oragnisms that create their own food from water, carbon dioxide and light energy from the sun.
  2. 8. succession Repopulation of an area that starts with bare soil left behind after disturbance, with grass and weeds growing in the first stages.
  3. 12. Breakdown dead organisms and decaying matter for energy.
  4. 13. a community of living and non living parts of a environment.
  5. 15. relationships A close relationship where both organisms survive and at least one is benefited.
  6. 16. Variety of different species in an environment.
  7. 18. Oragnisms that depend on others for food, they eat to obtain energy.
Down
  1. 1. succession Stages of growth where initial colonization of an area starts with bare rocks, lichen break rock to prepare soil for other more complex organisms to move in.
  2. 2. species First species to colonize or live in an area.
  3. 3. Water that flows across the land and into rivers and streams.
  4. 5. Shows how matter and energy is transferred from on organism to another through feeding relationships.
  5. 6. When biotic or abiotic factors rely on or influence each other.
  6. 7. mature and stable ecosystem in its final stages of development in ecological succession.
  7. 9. Non living parts of the environment.
  8. 10. transfer The ability to do work, it can be transferred and transformed but is always conserved and never destroyed.
  9. 11. When two or more organisms try to get the same resource.
  10. 14. Living parts of the environment.
  11. 15. Amount of salt content in water
  12. 17. The ability of an ecosystem to maintain long-term stability or balance and continue to grow healthy without help.