Mostly Ecology, Some Genetics Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• abiotic : not alive
• cycle : carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous, are just 3 elements that _ through earths's ecosystems
• ion : ca++ is an _
• cost : at this point a lab meat hamburger has a very high _
• fibers : stem cells give rise to muscle _ (how lab meat is made)
• decomposers : fungi and bacteria that break down dead organisms.
• neh : female chicken spelled backwards
• metro : i wonder if the paris _ has an ecosystem similar to ny's subway
• aa : abbreviation for the building blocks of protein
• gut : the location of much of the human microbiome
• taiga : between the tundra and the temperate forest lies the _
• egg : female germ cell
• coal : a fossil fuel formed over millions of years from buried dead plant matter. when burned it produces a lot of carbon dioxide
• noon : a time of day when you'd expect the oxygen levels in your terrariums to be high
• ocean : _ covers more than 70% of earth's surface
• canopy : what you find 250 feet above the rainforest floor
• biodiversity : rain forests and coral reefs are famous for this
• levels : small island nations are especially worried about rising sea _
• blanket : greenhouse gases are like a _ laying over our planet and trapping heat
• legumes : bacteria on the root nodules of _ take nitrogen from the air and transform it into ammonia which a plant can use
• oil : the fossil fuel, petroleum (aka crude _ ) was formed over millions of years from buried organisms such as algae and zooplankton
• both : _ cellular respiration and photosynthesis occur in plants
• autotrophs : they make their own food
• energy : stored _ moves up levels of the food chain
• marine : the biggest biome