APES Crossword

3. the sequence of consumption from producers through tertiary consumers
5. the process by which cells convert glucose and oxygen into energy, carbon dioxide, and
6. an organism that is incapable of photosynthesis and must obtain its energy by consuming other organisms; also known as an heterotroph
9. the diversity of life forms in an environment
11. in a scientific investigation, a group that experiences exactly the same conditions as the
14. an organism that uses the energy of the Sun to produce usable forms of energy; also known as a
15. derived from human activities
16. bodies and waste products and convert it into inorganic ammonium (NH4+)
18. or biochemical properties
19. crops are produced
22. a group of organisms that is distinct from other groups in its morphology (body form and structure),
23. the movement of nitrogen around the biosphere
24. the process by which fungal and bacterial decomposers break down the organic nitrogen found
25. the process by which cells convert glucose into energy in the absence of oxygen

1. the processes by which life-supporting resources such as clean water, timber, fisheries, and
2. living
4. a consumer that eats other consumers
7. a measure of how much an individual consumes, expressed in area of land
8. the region of our planet where life resides, the combination of all ecosystems on Earth
10. a complex model of how energy and matter move between trophic levels
12. the process by which producers incorporate elements into their tissues
13. except for the single variable under study
17. the process by which cells unlock the energy of chemical compounds
20. the movement of carbon around the biosphere
21. all land in a given landscape that drains into a particular stream, river, lake, or wetland
24. nonliving