Across
- 3. organism that eats both plants and meat/animals
- 4. process of turning nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds so they can be useful
- 6. once the water cools, it becomes liquid through the process of _____________________
- 7. gas that makes up 78% of earth's atmosphere
- 8. water leaves the earth and goes into the atmosphere as a water vapor
- 11. soil converts nitrogen compounds back to nitrogen gas so that the gas can go back to the atmosphere
- 12. continuous movement of water from the earth to the atmosphere and back to earth again
- 14. one organism eats another
- 15. passing of materials and energy from producers through consumers
- 18. organism that only eats meat or other animals
- 19. chart used to show how energy flows through a food chain
- 21. water from the clouds returning to earth
Down
- 1. layers that an energy pyramid is divided into
- 2. plants absorb the nitrogen compounds from soil to make proteins
- 4. two organisms live together, one benefits, and the other is not affected
- 5. all the interrelated food chains that are possible in an ecosystem
- 9. two organisms have similar lifestyles and they compete for resources
- 10. part of the carbon and oxygen cycle when dead organisms are decomposed by organisms such as bacteria and fungi
- 13. organism that eats only plants
- 16. two organisms that don't positively or negatively impact each other
- 17. two organisms live together and one harms the other
- 20. two organisms live together and both benefit from the relationship
