Balance of Nature

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Across
  1. 5. Food chain and food web are two types of ecological concepts that interpret the flow of _________ in a particular ecosystem
  2. 8. a major type of community of distinctive plants and animals living together in a particular climate and physical environment
  3. 9. Changes in an ecosystem are caused by natural events and by ________
  4. 11. A _______ forest is filled with trees which drop their leaves every year
  5. 12. _____level: Any of the sequential stages in a food chain, occupied by producers at the bottom and in turn by primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers, and then by decomposers (starts with t)
  6. 13. main difference between food chain and food _____ is that the food chain is a linear sequence of organisms through which the energy and nutrients pass whereas the food web is a complex of interconnected food chains of a particular ecosystem
  7. 14. Nature and ecosystems are constantly changing, they are _______
Down
  1. 1. Sometimes I become disrupted because changes in Earth's cycles affect the balance in a habitat or ecosystem
  2. 2. A complex network of organisms interacting with each other and their physical environment
  3. 3. Three essential parts of a food chain include producers, consumers, and ________
  4. 4. A type of habitat with long grasses and not may trees
  5. 6. I am the lowest trophic level of the energy pyramid
  6. 7. I am the process by which the sun's energy changes water and carbon dioxide into food
  7. 10. The study of relationships between living things and their environment (starts with an e and ends in -ology)