Across
- 2. how many organisms in a particular area
- 3. fancy science name for consumer
- 4. starts from rocks
- 6. multiple species need a limited resource
- 8. remora fish eats sharks leftover food scraps
- 10. larger a population gets, the faster it grows
- 12. eats all the things
- 13. single path of energy flow in an ecosystem
- 15. pattern of how organisms are spread out in an area
- 16. makes its own food
- 20. dispersion of things that live in herds
- 21. organism’s job
- 22. shows the direction of energy flow in a food web
- 24. eats stuff to get energy
- 25. rain
- 26. two predators fighting over a food source (competition)
- 27. H2O moving through the biosphere
- 29. one species benefits, one harmed
- 30. moving out of an ecosystem
- 32. only eats dead stuff
- 34. organism’s home
- 36. fancy science name for producer
- 37. nonliving
- 38. large scale tree removal
- 39. single individual
- 40. bacteria break down nitrates and release it to the atmosphere
- 41. most important species for the stability of a particular ecosystem
- 42. includes cellular respiration, photosynthesis, combustion, and decomposition
Down
- 1. how much energy is passed to the next trophic level
- 2. factors such as… weather, natural disasters, flood, wildfires, volcanic eruptions
- 5. moving into an ecosystem
- 7. all the members of a species that live together
- 9. eats primary consumers
- 11. herbivore trophic level
- 14. only eats plants
- 17. why aquatic species are going extinct
- 18. both species benefit
- 19. starts after a natural disaster
- 23. only eats other living animals
- 25. thing that gets hunted, eaten, attacked, consumed
- 28. thing that hunts, eats, attacks, consumes
- 31. earth
- 33. maximum number of individuals an environment can support
- 35. living