Unit #1 Terms to Know-Agriscience

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Across
  1. 3. a series of food chains meshed together
  2. 5. where all living things are located
  3. 6. procedure of identifying a potential answer to a problem or question
  4. 9. where fossil fuels are held under the Earth
  5. 12. basic, raw or physical good that can be bought, sold or traded
  6. 13. carbon-rich energy sources, considered non-renewable, found within the earth
  7. 16. organisms that produce their own food
  8. 18. factor that is intentionally changed or manipulated
  9. 25. Nitrogen formed into nitrites and nitrates
  10. 26. gases between Earth's surface and space
  11. 28. breakdown of plants or animals into ammonia
  12. 30. naturally enrich the soil by returning nitrogen, beans
  13. 32. educated guess
  14. 33. Atmospheric nitrogen placed into the soil to be used by plants
  15. 34. large naturally occuring habitat with floral and fauna
  16. 35. eats only plants
Down
  1. 1. known as nature's recyclers
  2. 2. geographical area where living organisms interact with non-living organisms
  3. 4. molecule broken apart by light absorption
  4. 7. by-products include sugar or glucose and oxygen
  5. 8. factor measured based on the change
  6. 10. organisms that cannot produce their own food
  7. 11. baseline that does not receive the experiment
  8. 14. raw, processed, facts
  9. 15. eats both plants and animals
  10. 17. specific position of an animal or plant in a food chain based on how it obtains its energy
  11. 19. a linear sequence of organisms in an ecosystem that describe energy transfer from consumption
  12. 20. bacteria reduce nitrogen in the soil and release nitrogen back to the atmosphere
  13. 21. animal feeds on dead plants and animals
  14. 22. the use of ammonia in the soil by plants
  15. 23. eats only other meat sources
  16. 24. natural environment where an animal lives, feeds, and reproduces
  17. 27. taking in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide
  18. 29. holding place, specifically of atmospheric gases
  19. 31. accounts for all water on the Earth's surface