Across
- 5. Organism that feeds on dead organic matter
- 6. Animal that eats plants
- 9. Organisms that make their own food
- 11. Organisms that make their own food
- 12. Succession Ecosystem recovery after disturbance where soil remains
- 13. Community of living and nonliving things interacting
- 16. Succession Ecosystem development on bare rock or new land
- 18. Photosynthetic bacteria often found in water
- 20. Nonliving parts of an environment
- 21. levels Feeding levels in a food chain or web
- 22. Producing food using chemical energy
- 24. Living parts of an environment
Down
- 1. Organism that uses light to make food
- 2. Process of absorbing nutrients into organisms
- 3. Total mass of living organisms in an area
- 4. consumer Organism that eats secondary consumers
- 5. Organisms that break down dead matter
- 7. Release of water vapor from plant leaves
- 8. Microscopic photosynthetic organisms in water
- 10. Rate at which energy or biomass is produced in an ecosystem
- 11. consumer Organism that eats producers
- 14. Water falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, etc
- 15. Conversion of organic nitrogen into ammonia
- 17. Liquid water turning into water vapor
- 19. Process converting nitrates into nitrogen gas
- 23. consumer Organism that eats primary consumers