Biology Module 2 Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities
  2. 5. a cycle involving living organisms, geological proceses and chemical processes
  3. 7. in this process, some soil bacteria convert nitrites and nitrates back into nitrogen gas
  4. 8. a chemical substance that an organism must obtain from its environment to sustain life
  5. 9. an area where an organism lives
  6. 10. the scientific discipline in which relationships among living organisms and the interactions the organisms have with their environments are studied
  7. 11. the ability of an organism to survive when subjected to abiotic or biotic factors
  8. 13. an organism that collects energy from sunlight or inorganic substances
  9. 17. individual organisms of a single species that share the same geographic location
  10. 19. Heterotrophs that prey on other heterotrophs
  11. 20. anything that takes up space and has mass
  12. 22. a biological community and all of the abiotic factors that might affect it
  13. 24. the total mass of living matter at each trophic level
  14. 26. the relationship between two or more organisms that live closely together and benefit from each other
  15. 27. a symbiotic relationship which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism
Down
  1. 1. an organism that gets its energy from consuming other organisms
  2. 3. Organisms that eat both autotrophs and heterotrophs
  3. 4. A close relationship that exists when who or more species live together
  4. 6. a heterotroph that eats only plants
  5. 12. when this element’s gas goes through fixation, it is converted to ammonium so specialized bacteria and other microorganisms can turn it to products plants can use
  6. 14. the non-living factors in an organism’s environment
  7. 15. eat fragments of dead matter in an ecosystem
  8. 16. the role or position has in its environment
  9. 18. the living factors in an organism’s environment
  10. 21. a relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is neither helped or harmed
  11. 23. the portion of Earth that supports life
  12. 25. any abiotic or biotic factor that restricts the members, reproduction or distribution of organisms