Across
- 2. an animal that is hunted and eaten for food.
- 3. An Organism that makes its own food through the process of photosynthesis.
- 5. Cycle - The water cycle is a natural pattern. Weather falls to the ground as rain, sleet, or snow. It evaporates into the air from Earth’s surface and from plants and animals. Then, this vapor rises into the air condenses, and falls back to the ground, and the cycle continues.
- 6. a living organism in an ecosystem that breaks down dead organic matter and recycles nutrients back into the environment.
- 9. The process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make food.
- 10. factors- a living thing or its product that affects an ecosystem.
- 12. a type of fungus that gets energy by breaking down organic material resulting in the release of carbon into the air.
- 14. Cycle- Nitrogen becomes usable for living things when nitrogen molecules are broken apart during lightning strikes, fires or when certain types of bacteria break it down.
Down
- 1. an animal that hunts other animals for food.
- 3. a living organism that takes food and energy from other living organisms. Parasites can not make their own food.
- 4. Material that is or was once living.
- 7. A large natural system that includes communities of organisms and nonliving things.
- 8. the relationship between two living things.
- 11. Factors- a non living chemical or physical factor in an environment that affects an ecosystem.
- 13. the ability to do work.