Across
- 2. The process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water
- 5. The process that changes liquid water to gaseous water
- 8. An organism that consumes entirely just plants
- 9. The weight or total quantity of living organisms of one animal or plant species
- 10. The ability to convert sunlight to energy
- 12. The microbial process of reducing nitrate and nitrite to gaseous forms of nitrogen, principally nitrous oxide
- 18. An organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
- 19. The process of absorption of vitamins, minerals, and other chemicals from food as part of the nutrition of an organism
- 20. The sum of all processes by which water moves from the land surface to the atmosphere via evaporation and transpiration
Down
- 1. An organism, often a bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem
- 3. An organism that consumes both meat and plants
- 4. Living or once living components of a community
- 6. A type of heterotroph, or organisms that consume dead and decaying organic matter known as detritus to obtain energy and nutrition
- 7. The process where microscopic organisms like bacteria or other types of decomposing organisms, break down nitrogen-containing chemicals from dead organic matter.
- 11. An organism that consumes entirely just meat
- 13. The process behind the condensation of water vapor in the atmosphere that falls down under the influence of gravity
- 14. The process by which organisms exchange gases, especially oxygen and carbon dioxide, with the environment
- 15. A non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
- 16. An organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
- 17. An organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy