Across
- 3. largest terrestrial biome that forms a coniferous forest belt
- 5. Explanation for the loss of energy from lower to higher trophic levels
- 7. Living factors of an ecosystem
- 8. hot, humid, and biodiverse biome that gets high rainfall year-round
- 9. Streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes
- 11. pH, salinity, depth, turbidity, and temperature
Down
- 1. Rule that states the amount of energy that is transferred between trophic levels
- 2. characteristic communities of plants and animals that result from, and are adapted to, its climate
- 4. the cause of changing biome distributions
- 6. Nonliving factors of an ecosystem
- 10. Includes oceans, coral reefs, algae, marshland, and estuaries