ecology word search

2. the biogeochemical cycle that describes the transformation and translocation of phosphorus in soil, water, and living and dead organic material.
4. a graphical representation of the relationship between the different living organisms at different trophic levels
6. only eats meat
10. the process that changes liquid water to gaseous water
11. are organisms that produce new biomass from inorganic resources
14. a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
17. a repeating cycle of processes during which nitrogen moves through both living and non-living things: the atmosphere, soil, water, plants, animals and bacteria
20. are consumers who depend on other sources for their food.
21. They eat primary producers—plants or algae

1. the process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy in the form of sugar
3. only eats plants
5. a deposit on the earth of hail, mist, rain, sleet, or snow
7. using the sugars produced during photosynthesis plus oxygen to produce energy for plant growth
8. describes how energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem
9. those that predate upon primary consumers
12. The various steps in a food chain or ecological pyramid, at which the transfer of food (or energy) takes place from one organism to another organism
13. living thing that produces
15. eats plants and meat
16. breaks down dying things on the ground
18. it is how water reaches plants, animals and us
19. living thing that consumes what producers produce
22. the process in which carbon atoms continually travel from the atmosphere to the Earth and then back into the atmosphere