Across
- 1. sunlight, oxygen content, and nutrients determine types and numbers or organisms in each layer
- 7. Nonliving components of environment.
- 9. The movement of phosphorus atoms from rocks through the biosphere and hydrosphere and back to rocks.
- 11. Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, run off, transpiration, infiltration. Humans impact this by storing water in reservoirs, irrigation, deforestation, and putting chemicals in it
- 12. Full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions
- 13. Surface layer where photosynthesis is usually confined too
- 14. The transfer of nitrogen from the atmosphere to the soil, to living organisms, and back to the atmosphere. Humans impact this by altering the amount of nitrogen that is stored in the biosphere.
- 16. Any form of life. Belongs to any of the 6 kingdoms
- 19. All the living organisms that inhabit an environment
- 21. All the different populations that live together in an area
- 22. Study of how organisms react with each other and the non-living environment
- 24. A measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid
- 25. The draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure, etc.
- 26. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. All abiotic and biotic factors.
- 27. Where an organism lives and any aspect of the location
- 28. Small, weakly-swimming, free floating organisms
- 29. Flow of water from the land surface into the subsurface
- 30. Group of organisms of same type that can reproduce to have fertile offspring
Down
- 2. Organisms that make their own food from compounds and energy obtained from the environment
- 3. A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area]
- 4. The movement of abiotic factors between the living and nonliving components within ecosystems; also known as nutrient cycles (i.e., water cycle, carbon cycle, oxygen cycle, and nitrogen cycle).
- 5. Cyclic movement of sulfur in various chemical forms from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment. Humans impact this by burning coal, natural gas, and other fossil fuels which greatly increases the amount of sulfur in the atmosphere and ocean and depleted the sedimentary rock sink
- 6. Photosynthetic algae found near the surface of the ocean
- 8. Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant
- 10. Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms
- 15. The organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again. Humans impact this by burning fossil fuels and cutting down trees,
- 17. The most diverse marine biome on Earth, found in warm, shallow waters beyond the shoreline. Only in waters 18-30 degrees celsius
- 18. Surface, Middle, Bottom.
- 20. Conversion of light energy from the sun into chemical energy
- 23. The change of state from a gas to a liquid