Across
- 4. shell-less sea slugs
- 6. carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids
- 10. position of an organism on the food chain
- 11. organisms that eat decomposing materials
- 12. earliest known plant to evolve
- 13. study of bacteria
- 16. animals coloration and markings used to repel predators
- 18. scientific name of large kelp
- 20. scientific name for live oak
- 23. process of photosynthesis and the absorption of raw materials from where plants get nutrition
- 26. negatively charged polyatomic ion with molecular formula NO3 that is usable for plant tissues cells
- 27. feeds on fish
- 28. a climbing bean or pea plant with nitrogen producing bacteria
- 29. original, organic material made in an ecosystem, matter used as fuel
Down
- 1. plant with purple flowers and stomata on leaves that open and close for sunlight
- 2. organisms role in an ecosystem
- 3. highly nitrogenous feces of seabirds and bats because of foods they consume that are high in protein
- 5. proposition that states that two species competing for the same resources cannot coexist if other ecological factors coexist
- 7. host/carrier that harbors pathogenic organisms without injury to itself
- 8. study of classification
- 9. species with a broad niche
- 14. stage in the nitrogen cycle caused by organic matter breaking down
- 15. water that is evaporated from leaves of plants
- 17. house where nitrogen fixing molecules live
- 19. being a predator
- 21. porc openings underneath plant leaves that open and close according to the metabolic needs of the plant
- 22. human effects on environment
- 23. flowering plants
- 24. close, long term relationships between two organisms
- 25. self feeding, producer