Across
- 2. molecules at the surface of liquid water absorb enough energy to change to a gas
- 5. shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
- 7. many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
- 9. mass is neither created nor destroyed
- 10. rain, snow, sleet, and hail
- 12. energy is neither created nor destroyed
- 16. break down biotic wastes and dead organisms, returning raw materials to the ecosystem
- 17. environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease in size
Down
- 1. makes its own food
- 3. organisms that interact with nonliving things in the environment
- 4. process in which gas changes to a liquid
- 6. the community of organisms that lives in a particular area along with the nonliving environment
- 7. a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
- 8. parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and that interact with an organism
- 10. all the members of a species living in a particular area
- 11. an environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce
- 13. gets energy feeding on other organisms
- 14. a living thing
- 15. all the different populations that live together in an area
