Across
- 1. Renewable organic material that's used as energy
- 3. A shrub or tree that grows on sediment and water. This is also used for tropical coastal vegetation.
- 7. The process of nitrates becoming nitrogen gas, which goes back in the atmosphere
- 9. productivity The rate in which plants produce organic compounds in a biome or ecosystem
- 12. Process which greenhouse gases gets released in the atmosphere
- 13. primary productivity This shows how much carbon dioxide plants take in during photosynthesis
- 15. Process of fluids flowing in or out
- 19. Marsh An ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone. Its a type of marsh
- 22. cycle The circulation of water in the atmosphere
- 23. An animal that feeds on dead organisms (plant detritus)
- 24. partitioning Two lizards compete for the same food, but one feeds up on a branch and the other on the floor
- 25. An organism that decomposes dead organic material
- 29. light Plants that receive this light have stronger and healthy stems
- 31. water Water underneath the Earths surface
- 33. A wetland covered mostly in grass which is a combination of terrestrial and aquatic
Down
- 2. The amount of salt that dissolves in a body of water
- 4. A lake that is used as a water source laws of thermodynamics 4 laws in which it deals with the relationship between heat
- 5. fixation How nitrogen is fixed by bacteria so its usable by plants
- 6. biome These include: grasslands, forests, deserts, and tundras
- 8. Coastal body of water with one or more streams flowing in it
- 10. An underground layer of permeable rock that has ground water
- 11. cycle Process where nitrogen goes from plants, animals, bacteria, and right back to the atmosphere
- 14. This forms a transaction zone between freshwater environments and saltwater environments
- 16. table The importance of this table is to conserve ground water
- 17. primary productivity The rate of solar energy taken in during photosynthesis (captured in sugar molecules)
- 18. cycle Movement of phosphorous from rocks to plants and animals
- 20. Measure of clarity in a liquid
- 21. biome These include: The Coral Reef, estuaries, and freshwater wetlands
- 26. cycle Process in which carbon goes from the atmosphere, to the animals, and back to the atmosphere
- 27. A reservoir which takes in a chemical from another part from its cycle
- 28. light This light helps for the making of fruits
- 30. level Stages in a food chain in an ecosystem
- 32. reef Underwater ecosystem filled with coral and aquatic life