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Across
  1. 3. the pathways of water as it moves in its various phases through the atmosphere, to the Earth, over and through the land, to the ocean, and back to the atmosphere.
  2. 5. a model that shows the flow of energy from one trophic, or feeding, level to the next in an ecosystem.
  3. 6. any heritable trait that helps an organism, such as a plant or animal, survive and reproduce in its environment.
  4. 7. the position of an organism in the food chain
  5. 9. a relationship or interaction between two different organisms that share similar habitat.
  6. 12. a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
  7. 15. the ability of a system to continue functioning under changing conditions or during disturbances
  8. 17. when energy is passed in an ecosystem from one trophic level to the next, only ten percent of the energy will be passed on
  9. 19. changes to biophysical environments and to ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans.
  10. 20. a living organism that shapes its environment
  11. 21. a biogeochemical process through which nitrogen is converted into many forms, consecutively passing from the atmosphere to the soil to organism and back into the atmosphere.
Down
  1. 1. anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.
  2. 2. the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind speed and direction, and barometric pressure.
  3. 4. the process in which carbon atoms continually travel from the atmosphere to the Earth and then back into the atmosphere.
  4. 6. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
  5. 8. a system of interlocking and interdependent food chain
  6. 10. the number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container.
  7. 11. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
  8. 13. the cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration.
  9. 14. all the different kinds of life you'll find in one area
  10. 16. Climate change can disrupt the match between organisms and their local environment,
  11. 18. the flow of energy through living things within an ecosystem