Across
- 2. An organism that is consumed
- 4. The process by which green plants and other organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water.
- 5. To become rotten/decayed
- 6. Denitrification → Loss in drainage water → Absorption and protein synthesis → Nitrogen fixation → Nitrification → Decomposition
- 9. The process of reducing nitrate and nitrite to gaseous forms of nitrogen
- 10. An organism that makes its own organic food substances
- 15. A place where an organism lives
- 16. A class of things of the same kind and with the same name
- 17. A network of interconnected food chains
- 19. The process by which ammonium compounds are converted to nitrates
- 20. A process in living organisms involving the production of energy
Down
- 1. Photosynthesis → Feeding → Respiration → Decomposition → Formation of fossil fuels and combustion
- 3. Free-living soil bacteria
- 7. A graphical representation showing the relationship between different organisms in an ecosystem
- 8. A group of organisms of the same species that live together
- 11. Fourth in rank
- 12. Made up of all the populations of different species living and interacting with one another
- 13. An organism that consumes another organism
- 14. The study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them
- 18. A community of organisms interacting with one another and with their environment