Across
- 3. living components of an ecosystem
- 5. shifts in global or regional climate patterns
- 8. living and nonliving factors that restrict the growth of an organism
- 9. organism that hunts and kills other animals
- 10. all living and nonliving components within an environment
- 11. an animal that is caught or killed by another for food
- 13. natural urge to act or feel a certain way without needing to learn or think about it
- 15. organisms that break down dead plants , animals , waste into simpler nutrients
- 16. nonnative organism that spreads rapidly potentilly causing harm
- 17. linear single path sequence showing how energy transfers from one organism to another
- 18. output of a system acts as an input amplifying or regulating actions
- 19. process by which plants use sunlight , water and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy
- 20. movement of molecules from low concentration to high concentration
Down
- 1. non-living physical and chemical elements in ecosystem
- 2. rivalry between living things for resources and more
- 4. natural environment where a specific species lives , grows and reporduces
- 6. maximum population size that an environment can support without degrading
- 7. movement of molecules from high concentration to a low concentration
- 12. variety of genes and alleles within a population
- 14. complex network of interconnected chains , overlapping paths