Building Science Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. a term used to describe when the environment or another species creates evolutionary pressure for a particular body form to survive
  2. 8. term used to mean "does not require oxygen"
  3. 9. a diagram showing the flow of energy in an ecosystem
  4. 10. a gas produced from cellular respiration
  5. 13. the process by which organisms break down sugar for energy
  6. 14. term used to mean "requires oxygen"
  7. 16. term used to describe maintaining balance
  8. 19. term used to describe the size of a population that an ecosystem can support
  9. 20. term used to describe when living things impact other living things
  10. 21. term used to describe when nonliving things impact living things
Down
  1. 1. process by which an organism absorbs nitrogen
  2. 2. term used to describe where an organism gets its' energy from
  3. 3. process by which amount of acid increases in ocean water lower the pH
  4. 4. an event in which an ecosystem falls out of balance and carrying capacity drastically changes
  5. 6. the process producers use to create sugars
  6. 7. term for organism that do photosynthesis
  7. 11. term for organism that must eat other organisms for food
  8. 12. a species that plays a large role in balancing an ecosystem
  9. 15. the unit of measurement used for how much hydrogen is present in a solution
  10. 17. a gas produced from photosynthesis
  11. 18. process by which nitrogen is transformed from N2 gas to a usable form