Across
- 3. general temperature and rainfall over a year
- 7. transfer of energy as one organism feeds on another
- 9. wet marshy lands usually along the coast
- 10. all the feeding relationships in an ecosystem
- 13. animal that feeds on other living things
- 18. animal that eats both plants and animals
- 21. the main types of plants ar4e grasses
- 23. percent of energy available for the consumer
- 24. broadleaf tree area in temperate zones
- 25. carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur
Down
- 1. very dry place with less than 10 inches of rain per year
- 2. very large body of salt water
- 4. a group of ecosystems with similar plants and climate
- 5. animal that eats other animals
- 6. sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, chlorophyll
- 8. cold, dry biome encircling the Arctic Ocean
- 11. animal that gets eaten by a predator
- 12. forest near the equator with more than 60 in of rain
- 14. animal that eats plants
- 15. organism that eats food made by other organisms
- 16. organism that makes its own food
- 17. change over time
- 19. resources like food, water, that limit populations
- 20. freshwater body of water surrounded by land
- 22. body of running water, usually ends in the ocean