Vocabulary
Across
- 3. -carbon moves through organisms and between the physical environment
- 5. -It is the place where an organism lives within an ecosystem
- 7. -an area of land that is surrounded, saturated, or soaked in water
- 10. -the slow development or replacement of an ecological community
- 13. -a biome that has lots of grass and few trees
- 15. -the movement of nitrogen between the environment and living things
- 16. -It is a region of earth where the climate determine the type of plants that live there
- 19. -A partially enclosed body of water
- 21. -an organism that eats other organisms
- 22. -eats only meat
- 24. -It shows the feeding relationships among many different organisms
- 26. -It is a tool that can be used to trace a flow of energy through an ecosystem
- 30. -the first organisms to live in an inhabited area
- 31. -has low average temperatures and more precipitation
Down
- 1. -the path of energy transferred from producers to consumers
- 2. -the biomes are very dry
- 4. -It is anything that has mass and takes up space
- 6. -consumer that eats only plants
- 8. -It is the community of living organisms and their nonliving environment
- 9. -they are broadleaf trees that drop their leaves as winter approaches
- 11. -It states that mass cannot be created or destroyed
- 12. -a push or pull exerted on an object
- 14. -It is the ability to cause change in a system
- 17. -It states that energy cannot be created or destroyed
- 18. -the number and variety of species that are present in an area
- 20. -It is also called an autotroph, and it makes its own food
- 23. -trees that have evergreen, needlelike leaves
- 25. -the movement of water between all land, water, and living things
- 27. -eats both meat and plants
- 28. -it has low average temperatures and very little precipitation
- 29. -the transfer of energy to an object by using force