unit 9 - ocean life
Across
- 2. a fissure in the ocean floor from which mineral rich superheated water
- 3. microscopic aquatic plants
- 4. the interaction of multiple food chain
- 9. autotropic organism viewed ad a source of biomass that can be consumed by other organisms
- 11. the ability of some organisms to create food from chemical reactions rather than from sunlight
- 12. an organism requiring complex organic compounds for food which it obtains by preying on other organisms or by eating particles of organic matter
- 13. the water portion of the ocean
Down
- 1. small floating organisms in the sea
- 5. organism that lives in conditions of extreme temperature, acidity or chemical composition such as hydrothermal vents
- 6. microscopic aquatic animals
- 7. all living organism including plants and animals of a giver community along with nonliving physical environment
- 8. any various organisms that return constituents of organic substances to ecological cycles by feeding on and breaking down dead protoplasm
- 10. an arrangement of organisms of an ecological community in order of predatation, in which each uses the next lower memeber as a food source