Unit 8 Ecology Review
Across
- 3. bacteria turn soil nitrates back into nitrogen gas
- 6. all populations living in area; all living things
- 8. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria or lightning change nitrogen gas into useful use
- 11. water falls from clouds in the sky
- 12. all living and nonliving factors in an area
- 14. is a single living thing
- 15. all parts of Earth where life exits in water, land, and air
- 16. water in plants evaporates into the atmosphere
- 17. water vapor, air turns into liquid water
- 18. burning coal and oil adds CO2 into the air
- 20. Many interconnecting chains that show several feeding options in the ecosystem
Down
- 1. Nonliving factors
- 2. use dead or decaying organisms as their source of energy
- 4. 10% of energy of each level passed on the next level
- 5. all members of same species living in an area
- 7. a large area that shares similar climate, plants, and animals
- 9. 1 feeding option
- 10. eat other organisms to gain energy
- 13. liquid water becomes water vapor
- 19. all living or once living factors