Across
- 3. energy cannot be created or destroyed
- 5. eat primary consumers
- 7. movement of nitrogen between the environment and living things
- 9. describes how water travels from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
- 10. breakdown of dead organisms and wastes
- 11. burning of materials, including wood and fossil fuels
- 14. mass cannot be created or destroyed
Down
- 1. ability to do work and enables organisms to use matter and in life processes
- 2. carbon moves through organisms and between organisms and the physical environment
- 4. formed from decomposing organisms that were buried deeply millions of years ago
- 6. tool that can be used to trace the flow of energy through an ecosystem
- 8. process in which the soil is able to fix nitrogen gas into forms that plants can use
- 12. the amount of energy available and population size _____ as you go up the energy pyramid
- 13. anything that has mass and takes up space
