vocabulary
Across
- 2. movement of nitrogen between the environment and living things
- 4. eats other plants and animals
- 6. the path of energy transfer from producer to consumer
- 7. partially enclose body of water
- 9. takes place when energy change from one form to another
- 10. an organism that gets energy and nutrients by breaking down the remains of other organisms
- 13. a community of living organism lives within an ecosystem
- 15. ability to cause a change in a system
- 17. push or pull
- 18. consumer that eats only plants such as grasshoppers or bison
- 19. organisms that eats other organisms
- 20. low average temp. like those in the tundra biome but more precipitation
- 21. tool that can be used and trace the flow of energy through an ecosystem
- 22. such as a badger or a wolf eats other animals
- 24. is the process in which organic mater and nutrients slowly build up in a lake or pond ecosystem
- 25. shows the feeding relationships among many different organisms in an ecosystem
- 26. anything that takes up space
- 27. biome that has grass and fern trees
- 31. number and variety of species that are presents in area is referred
Down
- 1. broadleaf trees that drop their leaves as winter approaches
- 3. states that energy cannot be created or destroyed
- 5. a region of earth where the climate determines the types of plants that live through
- 8. the first organisms to live in an uninhabited area
- 11. an autotroph uses energy to make food
- 12. states that mass cannot be created or destroyed
- 14. slow development or replacement of an ecological community over time
- 16. an event that changes an ecosystem
- 23. has low average temp. and very little precipitation
- 28. biome are very dry
- 29. trees which were are trees that have evergreen needlelike;eaves
- 30. transfer of energy to an object caused by using a force