Across
- 3. chemical backbone of life on Earth
- 5. a chemical process...
- 7. The smallest particle of a substance that has all of the physical and chemical properties of that substance.
- 8. process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods
- 10. organism that produces organic compounds
Down
- 1. non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
- 2. an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
- 4. organism that derives the organic compounds and energy it needs from the consumption of other organisms
- 6. living organism that shapes its environment
- 9. biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.