1st nine weeks vocab crossword

3. Another term for plants or organisms that make their own food.
6. Another term used for consumers.
7. The process plants use to make glucose and oxygen.
16. Heat energy you feel by touching the heat source.
17. The process of water heating up and rising into the atmosphere.
19. The group of organisms within an ecosystem which occupy the same level in a food chain.
20. Animals that eat meat.
21. Animals that eat meat and plants.
22. Rain, sleet and snow are all examples of this.
23. Describes who eats whom in the wild.
24. These animals and plants break down dead organisms and returns their elements to the air and soil.

1. Animals that eat plants.
2. The process of forming clouds.
4. This cycle describes how carbon dioxide is recycled in the atmosphere.
5. This cycle uses different types of bacteria to move nitrogen from the air to the soil and back again.
7. These organisms are all different types of plants.
8. The process of water evaporating from plants.
9. These organisms have to eat other things to get the energy they need.
10. Factors that are considered not alive.
11. Heat energy such as a campfire
12. The process of using glucose and oxygen to make carbon dioxide, water vapor and ATP.
13. A complex diagram that shows how energy and matter flow through different organisms in an ecosystem.
14. Factors that are considered living or was once alive.
15. The green pigment found in plants.
18. Heat energy from circulating warm and cold gases or liquids.