Across
- 2. The development of new inhabitants to replace the previous community of plants and animals that has been disrupted or disturbed by an event.
- 3. A repeating cycle of processes during which ________ moves through both living and non-living things.
- 4. Anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.
- 7. It is the process which breaks down ______ dioxide into compounds that can be used as nutrition.
- 8. Describes how energy and nutrients moves through an ecosystem.
- 9. The intake of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.
- 10. An area classified according to the species that live in that location.
Down
- 1. Occurs when new land is formed or bare rock is exposed, providing a habitat that can be colonized for the first time.
- 5. Made up of interconnected food chains that show the relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
- 6. A species' average population size in a particular habitat.