Across
- 2. area of Earth where water movement and storage occurs (1 word)
- 10. corrosive rain caused by rainwater falling to the ground through sulfur dioxide gas (2 words)
- 13. graphic representation of different trophic levels in an ecosystem (2 words)
- 14. trophic level that gets its energy from primary consumers (2 words)
- 16. study that attempts to quantify everything of entire ecosystems (3 words)
- 18. process where excess nutrients cause excess growth of microorganisms (1 word)
- 22. ecosystem model that is created with math to predict effects of the environment disturbances on an ecosystem (2 words)
- 23. ecosystem model that is created with computer programs to try and predict the effects of environmental disturbances and create a holistic model (2 words)
- 24. organism that is able to create its own food using inorganic compounds (1 word)
- 25. community of living organisms and their interactions (1 word)
Down
- 1. linear representation of a the flow of energy (2 words)
- 3. steady state of an ecosystem (1 word)
- 4. trophic level that gets its energy from secondary consumers (2 words)
- 5. increasing concentrations of toxic substances going through each trophic level (1 word)
- 6. organism at the top of the food chain (2 words)
- 7. cycling of mineral nutrients through ecosystems (2 words)
- 8. trophic level that gets its energy from primary producers (2 words)
- 9. trophic level that gets its energy from sunlight or inorganic compounds (2 words)
- 11. biomass consumed from a lower trophic level (1 word)
- 12. position of an organism/species in a food web or food chain (2 words)
- 15. a resource that is either regenerated very slowly or not at all (3 words)
- 17. graphic representation of an entire ecosystems flow of energy (2 words)
- 19. total weight of living organism (1 word)
- 20. ecosystem model that has flow charts that show the interactions of different organisms (2 words)
- 21. study of changes in ecosystem structure (2 words)