Across
- 2. Slow development or replacement of ecological community by another ecological community
- 4. Eats both plants and animals
- 8. Movement of nitrogen between the environment and living things
- 9. The movement of water between the oceans,atmosphere,land,and living things
- 12. The ability to do work and enables organisms to use matter in life processes
- 15. States that mass cannot be created or destroyed
- 16. Biome that has grasses and few trees
- 17. A region of Earth where the climate determines the types of plants that live there
- 22. States that energy cannot be created or destroyed
- 26. Is a partially closed body of water formed where a river flows into an ocean
- 27. Anything that has mass and takes up space
- 28. Event that changes ecosystem
- 30. Biomes are very dry
- 33. The process in which organic matter and nutrient slowly builds up in a lake or pond ecosystem
- 34. web Shows the feeding relationships among many different organisms in an ecosystem
- 35. Animal that eats other animals
Down
- 1. Organism that only eats plants
- 3. Has low average temperatures and very little precipitation
- 5. Organism that gets energy and nutrients by breaking down the remains of other organisms
- 6. The ability to cause change in a system
- 7. carbon moves through organisms and between organisms and the physical environment
- 10. Trees that have evergreen, needle like leaves
- 11. Area of land that is soaked with water for at least a part of the year
- 13. First organisms to live in an uninhabited area
- 14. Has low average temperatures like those in the tundra biome, but more precipitation
- 18. Takes place when energy changes from one form to another
- 19. Is a community of living organisms in a non living environment
- 20. chain Is the path of energy transfer from producers to consumers
- 21. is a place where an organism lives within an ecosystem
- 23. is a push or pull exerted on an object
- 24. uses energy to make food
- 25. Organism that eats other organisms
- 29. A tool that can be used to trace the flow of energy through an ecosystem
- 31. Broadleaf trees that drop their leaves as winter approaches
- 32. The transfer of energy to an object
