Across
- 1. transition layer between the warmer mixed water at the surface and the cooler deep water below.
- 5. Rainfall
- 6. Store or build up carbon
- 8. Two species compete for the same resources, only one will benefit while the other will not.
- 10. Breaking down substrate into smaller pieces
- 12. Transforms liquid into gas using the sun
- 13. The total rate of photosynthesis in a given area
- 15. How much salt is in an aquatic system
- 20. Both species benefit
- 21. Loss of water, like sweat.
- 23. An ecosystem or group of ecosystems that can be characterized by its vegetation, plant and animals life, climate, geology, elevation, and rainfall.
- 24. The weight of all living things on Earth
- 25. Bacteria turn nitrogen gas into ammonia
- 27. Term that defines an organism's role within an ecosystem
- 28. Release carbon
Down
- 2. Factors that are needed but rare, like phosphorus
- 3. Makes it's own energy through photosynthesis
- 4. Long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth's local, regional and global climates.
- 7. Clouds
- 9. One species benefits, the other is neither helped nor harmed
- 11. The rate of energy storage by photosynthesizers in a given area, after subtracting the energy lost to respiration.
- 14. Microscopic aquatic plants that perform photosynthesis
- 16. How cells make ATP
- 17. Excessive algae growth due to fertilizers that causes dead zones
- 18. Nonliving parts of the environment
- 19. The elevation of the land.
- 22. The opposite of an autotroph
- 24. Living parts of the ecosystem
- 26. Another name for the water cycle