Ecosystems and Biomes

5. Plant-eating animals, primary consumers.
6. Use of living organisms or biological processes for industrial, agricultural, or medical purposes. Monsanto, Syngenta.
7. Energy flows, nutrients...
9. Clearing of forest and woodlands.
10. Activities in which a natural resource is changed by people into another product.
12. The rainforest has one of the highests.
13. Improvement of the environment for living, especially the soil, enabling other species to invade and survive.
16. Labelled secondary consumers, they do not rely directrly on green plants for food.
17. Components of an ecosystem such as soil, temperature, rain.
18. Role in the functioning of the ecosystem.
20. Birds and insects help in this process of reproduction.
23. The tallest trees in the tropical rainforest are called...
25. Large-scale ecosystems, identified and named by their dominant vegetation cover.

1. An organism's natural home, where it obtains food and shelter.
2. Carbon dioxide, water and sunlight are used to make glucos by this process.
3. Unique ability to manufacture their own food from inorganic materials.
4. Its wide trunk stores water and has a thick bark which protects it against fires.
8. A tertiary activity strongly related to natural beauty, cultural and historic sites.
9. Process by which humans becan to keep animals.
11. Populations of all species added together form the...
14. Farming, fishing, mining and forestry are examples of ..... activities.
15. This biome has the highest biodiversity.
19. These roots stand above the ground to give support to the trees.
20. Total of all individuals of the same species.
21. Part of the pioneer community in succession.
22. Swamps, marshes, lakes, deltas. They sift waste and suspended silt from floodwaters.
24. Also known as coniferous forests.