Ecosystems

3. The areas on and around earth that can sustain life
5. When a species no longer lives anywhere on Earth.
8. The water in the biosphere on earth
9. plants that make their own food using energy from the sun
10. Refers to an organism that is eaten by another organism.
11. A large area that is home to many ecosystems
12. that eat other animals
15. Species that do not normally live in a certain area.
20. Predictable changes that occur in an ecosystem over time
24. single living thing
25. animals and get their energy from producers or other animals that eat producers.
27. The variety of organisms in an ecosystem
28. A model that shows how energy stored in food passes from organism to organism.
29. group of the same species
30. The role of an organism in a food chain
31. Consumers that break down animal waste and dead plants and animals
32. Conditions the atmosphere of an area over a short period of time

1. Consumers that don’t usually kill for their food, but feed off the remains of living things killed by other consumers
2. A network of interconnected food chains
4. Is the movement of energy, starting from the Sum, and passing from one organism to the next.
6. The air in the biosphere that surrounds earth
7. The first species to arrive in an area
8. that get their energy from plants
13. Have lived in an area for a long time
14. large area of the earth with similar climate, vegetations, soils and life forms
16. Are often second or third level consumers and obtain energy by eating other organisms.
17. The magnification or build-up of toxins in a food chain as you get higher in the food chain.
18. Build-up of toxins in an organism over time
19. Species that may soon become extinct
21. groups of populations live together in the same ecosystem
22. non-living components of an ecosystem
23. Average weather of an area over a long period of time
26. both plants and animals
27. living components of an ecosystem