Q1 Ecology Quiz

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Across
  1. 2. Organism that eats other organisms
  2. 4. Consumer that eats only animals
  3. 6. Consumer that eats only plants
  4. 7. Species Species with a critical role in maintaining ecosystem balance
  5. 9. Organism that makes energy using sunlight
  6. 11. Variety of life in an ecosystem; more = more stability
  7. 12. Flows one way in ecosystems, mostly from the Sun
  8. 14. Process plants use to turn sunlight into energy
Down
  1. 1. Succession Ecosystem regrowth after disturbance; soil already exists
  2. 3. Consumer that eats both plants and animals
  3. 5. Breaks down dead material and recycles nutrients
  4. 8. Process of ecosystem change over time
  5. 9. Succession Ecosystem development starting on bare rock (no soil)
  6. 10. Ability of an ecosystem to recover after disturbance
  7. 13. Levels Levels in a food chain