3: Ecosystems

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Across
  1. 2. universal solvent
  2. 4. microorganisms
  3. 5. dead bodies
  4. 7. self-feeders
  5. 9. parts of the earth's air, water, and soil where life is found
  6. 12. most basic building block of matter
  7. 16. a set of organisms interacting with one another and with their nonliving environment
  8. 17. another term for producers
  9. 20. a key subfield of environmental science
  10. 22. biological diversity
  11. 23. nonliving component of the earth
  12. 24. intensely hot part of the earth
  13. 25. multicellular organisms
Down
  1. 1. part of earth that lies beneath the crust and above the central core
  2. 3. organisms which eat both plants and animals
  3. 6. crust, mantle, core
  4. 7. group of individuals of the same species living in a particular place
  5. 8. populations of different species living and interacting in a particular place
  6. 10. ability to do work or transfer energy
  7. 11. the outer part of a planet
  8. 13. the third building block of matter
  9. 14. a biome with thick growth of trees and bushes that covers a large area
  10. 15. meat eater
  11. 18. living component of earth
  12. 19. unicellular organisms
  13. 21. fundamental structural and functional unit of life