Unit-1 The Living World- Ecosystems VOCAB
Across
- 4. tree that grown son coastal water
- 5. animal that feeds on dead organisms
- 6. Rate at which all plants produce useful chemical energy
- 7. process where nitrogen travels through living and non living things
- 8. process where carbon travels through living and non living things
- 9. ecosystems with similar climate
- 11. Energy cannot be created or destroyed
- 12. water source from under the surface
- 16. Water based biome
- 20. process of reducing nitrate to nitrogen
- 21. continuous circulation of water
- 23. the rate at which energy is converted to organic substances
- 26. renewable organic material from organic sources
- 29. food chain
- 30. a light absorbed at the top of the ocean 1m
- 33. Rate at which solar energy is captured in sugar
Down
- 1. elements being stored
- 2. Underwater ecosystem
- 3. transforms atmospheric N2 into reactive compounds
- 10. the movement of nutrients
- 13. opaqueness of water
- 14. dissolved salt in body of water
- 15. Upper surface water
- 17. Multiple species find a way to coexist in a limited environment
- 18. underground layer of water with rocks
- 19. a light that Penetrates water deeper than 100m
- 22. organism that breaks down organic material
- 24. reservoir that produces material
- 25. transfer of phosphorous in organic organisms
- 27. wetland with a variety of grass
- 28. where freshwater and saltwater meet
- 31. where tide meets stream
- 32. reservoir that receives material