Ecosystems

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Across
  1. 4. a large community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in a particular area
  2. 5. a group of individuals of the same species living and interbreeding within a given area.
  3. 6. a living thing that isn't a plant or human
  4. 8. often stored by cells in biomolecules, particularly carbohydrates (sugars) and lipids
  5. 11. a living component of an ecosystem
  6. 12. a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life.
  7. 13. the process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy.
Down
  1. 1. any organism that can't make its own food.
  2. 2. an interacting group of various species in a common location
  3. 3. made up of the parts of Earth where life exists
  4. 4. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
  5. 5. multicellular organisms
  6. 7. is a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
  7. 9. the role an organism plays in a community
  8. 10. organism that breaks down dead organic material