Across
- 4. resources that determine how large a population can grow
- 7. the non-living parts of an ecosystem like water, sunlight, rocks
- 11. energy stored in bonds of substances
- 14. primary consumer- an organism that eats mostly plants for energy
- 16. heat transfer through electromagnetic waves
- 18. energy produced by vibrations
- 20. the max number of individuals of a species that an ecosystem can support
- 21. heat transfer through direct contact
- 22. another word for producers that make their own food using sunlight
- 23. a community of living organisms interacting with their non-living environment
- 24. organisms that break down dead matter
Down
- 1. the movement of thermal energy from a warmer to a cooler object
- 2. a diagram that shows how energy decreases as it moves through food chains
- 3. stored energy based on position or condition
- 5. energy stored due to an object's height
- 6. the living parts of an ecosystem like plants, animals, bacteria
- 8. heat transfer through the movement of currents in liquids and gases
- 9. total kinetic energy of the particles of a substance
- 10. energy stored in object's that are compressed or stretched
- 12. the variety of different species living in an area
- 13. another word for consumers that eat other organisms to get energy
- 15. energy of motion
- 17. organism that eats both plants and animals
- 19. many overlapping food chains that how energy moves through an ecosystem
- 20. organism that eats mostly other animals for energy