Across
- 1. The third consumer in a food chain.
- 3. The type of cell transport that requires energy to move molecules from low concentration to high.
- 6. The experimental setup needed as a baseline for validity.
- 7. The type of growth pattern seen when limiting factors are in place and carrying capacity is reached.
- 13. One individual living thing
- 15. The creation of new offspring.
- 17. An organism that makes the energy for the ecosystem.
- 19. The process that uses the energy from the sun to make glucose.
- 24. An organism that gets its energy by breaking down dead material.
- 25. An organism that hunt, kills and eats another.
- 26. The movement of molecules from a high concentration to low by movement through a membrane protein.
- 28. The fourth consumer in a food chain.
- 29. The type of limiting factor that effects the population regardless of the size.
- 33. The molecules found on the RIGHT side of the arrow in a reaction.
- 36. The molecule of energy that cells can use.
- 37. The species that has a large effect on the health of the entire ecosystem.
- 38. The type of cell transport that does not require energy and move molecules from high concentration to low.
- 39. The ability to change over time to increase survival.
- 40. The maintenance of an internal condition.
- 41. A diagrams that shows all the paths of energy flow in an ecosystem.
- 43. The characteristic given to the cell membrane because it allows some materials in but not others.
- 44. The type of growth pattern seen when limiting factors are absent from an ecosystem.
- 46. The process that uses glucose to produce energy for the cell in the form of ATP.
- 47. An organism that can make its own food.
- 48. The maximum amount of individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support.
- 49. A diagram that shows a single path of energy flow in an ecosystem.
Down
- 2. The collapse of an ecosystem when a keystones species is removed.
- 4. Organisms in the ecosystem that gets its energy by eating others.
- 5. The movement of bulk material from outside the cell into the cell.
- 8. The second consumer in a food chain
- 9. The double layer of fat that forms the structural component of the cell membrane.
- 10. The nonliving factors in an ecosystem
- 11. The living factors in an ecosystem.
- 12. The movement of bulk material from inside the cell to out of the cell.
- 14. The idea of getting bigger by adding more material.
- 16. An organism that gets hunted, killed and eaten by another.
- 18. A group of individuals of the same species that live in a given area.
- 20. A consumer that eats the producer.
- 21. The molecules found on the LEFT side of the arrow in a reaction.
- 22. The variable in an experiment that results from a change and you collect data on.
- 23. An organism that cannot make its own food.
- 27. The simplest/basic unit of life
- 30. The variable in an experiment that the scientist chooses to change.
- 31. The type of limiting factor that has a greater effect based on the size of the population.
- 32. The movement of water molecules from high concentration to low.
- 34. The idea of creating more complex structures and being able to perform more advanced processes.
- 35. The movement of molecules from a high concentration to low.
- 42. A diagram that shows the flow of energy up the trophic levels with relation to organism abundance.
- 45. The rule that predicts how much energy can transfer from one trophic level to the next.