Ecology Crossword

5. anything that has mass and takes up space
6. the place where a population or an individual organism normally lives
9. compounds contain at least two carbon atoms combined with atoms of one or more other elements
10. set of organisms interacting with one another and with their environment of nonliving matter
11. the astounding variety of different organisms
15. ice in frozen soil layers
16. the smallest and most fundamental structural and functional units of life
17. a complex chemical process that plants use to provide food for themselves and for us and most other animals
19. another form of kinetic energy
20. the capacity to do work or transfer heat
22. collecting waste materials and processing them into new materials
23. large regions such as forests, deserts, and grasslands, with distinct climates and certain species adapted to them
24. a sequence of organisms, each of which serves as a source of food or energy for the next

1. a group of organisms with distinctive traits and, for sexually reproducing organisms, can mate and produce fertile offspring
2. feed on the wastes or dead bodies of other organisms
3. any in the environment that is harmful to the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms
4. the management of natural resources with the goal of minimizing resource waste and sustaining resource supplies for current and future generations
7. the chance that something will happen
8. consists of all of the water on or near the earth’s surface
12. living things that interact with their environment and with each other
13. procedures carried out under controlled conditions to gather information and test ideas
14. make the nutrients they need from compounds and energy obtained from their environment
17. a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same place at the same time
18. reasoning involves using logic to arrive at a specific conclusion based on a generalization or premise
21. an approximate representation or simulation of a system being studied