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