BALANCE IN NATURE (LS 2)

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Across
  1. 3. The process of converting a chemical substance into a form that does not evaporate
  2. 4. Web An interlocking pattern formed by a series of food chains
  3. 6. Refers to washing a soluble substance out (of a solid) by allowing a suitable liquid solvent to percolate through it
  4. 12. Decay
  5. 13. The process of evaporation through plant leaves
  6. 16. The process of converting nitrogenous residues to ammonia
  7. 17. Nonliving factors in an ecosystem
  8. 18. The process of converting or being converted into nitrates or nitrites through the action of bacteria
  9. 19. The process wherein a gas is changed into a liquid
  10. 20. The process wherein the small droplets of water in clouds form larger droplets
Down
  1. 1. The process wherein bacteria convert nitrates or nitrites to gaseous nitrogen and some nitrous oxides
  2. 2. A community of living things and their relationships to their surroundings
  3. 5. The process wherein water in its liquid state turns to gas
  4. 7. Along with biosynthesis, is the process of manufacturing complex organic compounds from simple molecules obtained from the environment
  5. 8. The process wherein rainwater soaks into the ground, through the soil and into underlying rock layers
  6. 9. The biological process in which carbohydrates are broken down in the presence of oxygen into carbon dioxide and water
  7. 10. Chain A sequence of organisms arranged in such a way that each feeds on the organisms before it in the chain
  8. 11. The process wherein green plants produce carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water using light energy from sunlight and chlorophyll
  9. 14. Runoff The water that returns to earth as precipitation that runs off the surface of the land and flows downhill into streams ,rivers, ponds and lakes
  10. 15. Living things like plants and animals