Ecosystems and Biogeochemical Cycles

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Across
  1. 7. The second tropic level of consumers usually omnivores or carnivores
  2. 8. Non-living factors
  3. 9. the first trophic level of consumer that eats the producers
  4. 10. A type of consumer that feeds off of dead animals
  5. 14. A type of consumer that eats meat and plants
  6. 16. The third tropic level of consumer usually carnivores
  7. 17. when water heats up and turns into a gas then travels into the atmosphere
  8. 18. when a new spot of land is made or exposed and an environment has to be grown from nothing
  9. 19. the total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume
Down
  1. 1. A symbol using trophic levels that represents the flow of energy though an environment starting with producers at the bottom moving upwards
  2. 2. organisms that consume other plants/animals for energy
  3. 3. plants that use energy from the sun to create food
  4. 4. a plant that uses sunlight to create its own food
  5. 5. bacteria/plants that break down dead animals and puts the nutrients back in the soil
  6. 6. Living factors
  7. 7. when a disaster destroys an environment and it has to. grow back from preexisting plants that were left behind
  8. 11. when water falls back down to the earths surface in liquid or solid form
  9. 12. A type of consumer that only eats meat
  10. 13. levels of consumers representing flow of energy through an ecosystem
  11. 15. A type of consumer that only eats producers