Ecosystems and Biogeochemical Cycles Project

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Across
  1. 3. process of absorption of vitamins, minerals, and other chemicals from food as part of the nutrition of an organism
  2. 5. eats both plants and meat
  3. 7. the process behind the condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere that falls down under the influence of gravity
  4. 8. non-living components in an ecosystem
  5. 9. the species that first colonize new habitats created by disturbance
  6. 14. organism excretes waste or dies, the nitrogen in its tissues is in the form of organic nitrogen
  7. 15. food is made by bacteria or other living things using chemicals as the energy
  8. 18. use sunlight to make food
  9. 20. tropic level of things that eat plants
  10. 21. transferred between organisms in food webs from producers to consumers
  11. 22. organism that breaks down organic material
  12. 26. process that converts nitrate to nitrogen gas
  13. 27. process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers
  14. 30. umber of individuals or biomass is minimum and increases at each trophic level
  15. 31. rate at which energy is added to the bodies of organisms in the form of biomass
  16. 33. happens when a new patch of land is created or exposed for the first time
  17. 35. organisms that can make their food
  18. 37. organic material that comes from plants and animals
  19. 38. community or group of living organisms that live in and interact with each other in a specific environment.
  20. 39. produces its food by light energy
Down
  1. 1. defined as the position of an organism in the food chain
  2. 2. eats detritus
  3. 4. a previously occupied area is re-colonized following a disturbance that kills much or all of its community
  4. 6. eats meat
  5. 10. consisting of microscopic plants
  6. 11. organism that obtain energy from chemicals
  7. 12. energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem
  8. 13. bacteria that can go through photosynthesis
  9. 16. eats greens/plants
  10. 17. process that changes liquid water to gaseous water
  11. 19. living components in an ecosystem
  12. 23. water evaporation into the atmosphere from the soil surface, evaporation from the capillary fringe of the groundwater table, and evaporation from water bodies on land.
  13. 24. makes its own food
  14. 25. organism that cannot produce its own food
  15. 28. eats secondary consumers
  16. 29. eats primary consumers
  17. 32. process in living organisms involving the production of energy
  18. 34. chemical reaction during which monomers join to form polymers
  19. 36. hunt their own food