Across
- 2. breakdown complex organic compounds in simple soluble organic compounds
- 4. organism that kills and feeds on another organism
- 6. organism which lives on a host and deprives the host of nutrients
- 7. chemical process that releases energy in living organisms
- 10. process that releases large amounts of carbon from fossil fuels into the atmosphere
- 11. branch of biology concerned with classification of organisms
- 12. ecosystems based on land
- 13. the study of heredity and variation in organisms
- 14. the role of an organism within an ecosystem
- 15. type of relationship between leguminous plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria
Down
- 1. abiotic factor measured in degree Celsius
- 3. the combination of factors that surround and act upon an organism
- 5. consumer which feeds on a secondary consumer
- 6. naturally occurring process which removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
- 8. edaphic factors are those connected with the _________
- 9. close relationship between organisms of different species
