Sustainable Ecosystems

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Across
  1. 3. Eats other organisms for energy.
  2. 5. The zone where life can exist.
  3. 8. Visible form of radiant energy.
  4. 9. Makes its own food.
  5. 13. Representation of feeding relationships in a community.
  6. 15. The layer of gases surrounding Earth.
  7. 16. The mass of living organisms in a given area.
  8. 19. The process by which sugar is converted to a form of energy a cell can use.
  9. 21. The biogeochemical cycle that is impacted by the burning of fossil fuels.
  10. 22. Earth's solid outer layer
Down
  1. 1. The land area drained by a particular river.
  2. 2. All living organisms and their physical and chemical environment.
  3. 4. A factor including living things and their remains.
  4. 6. An ecosystem that is maintained through natural processes.
  5. 7. All of Earth’s water.
  6. 9. Process by which the Sun’s energy is converted to chemical energy.
  7. 10. Sequence of organisms showing energy transfer.
  8. 11. Form of energy transferred during heating of cooling.
  9. 12. The job or function of an organism.
  10. 14. The cycle showing the movement of water through ecosystems.
  11. 17. A large geographical region defined by climate
  12. 18. An important biogeochemical cycle.
  13. 19. capacity The maximum number of species a given ecosystem can sustain.
  14. 20. The non-living components of an ecosystem.