Across
- 3. a food ____ is a model that shows how energy flows in an ecosystem through feeding relationships.
- 6. An element found in all living things and is necessary for life.
- 9. Cellular ____ is the series of chemical reactions that convert food energy into ATP
- 11. An energy ____ is a model that shows the amount of energy available in each link of a food chain.
- 15. the process of a liquid changing into a gas
- 16. A process by which glucose is broken into smaller molecules.
- 17. A series of chemical reactions that convert light energy into an energy-storage molecule glucose.
- 18. all the living and non-living things in a given area.
Down
- 1. the process by which gas turns into a liquid
- 2. an organism that produces its own food.
- 4. Matter ______ in an ecosystem.
- 5. examples include snow, rain, sleet, hail
- 7. The laws of ______ of matter and energy state that neither matter nor energy can be created nor destroyed.
- 8. an organism that consumers the bodies od dead organisms and wastes produced by living organisms.
- 10. the process that changes atmospheric nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds is known as nitrogen _______.
- 12. Energy _____ in an ecosystem.
- 13. a food ___ is a model of energy transfer that can show how the food chains in a community are connected
- 14. an organism that cannot make its own food and must eat other organisms
