CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

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After completing the cross-word puzzle, unlock the mystery word by using the shaded blocks indicated in each number. (15 points)
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VERTICAL:
____________________ 1. This pertains to the flow of elements and compounds moving continuously between Earth and its organisms.
____________________ 2. This type of environment includes all the entities or processes that assist human life in various ways.
____________________ 3. It is a community or group of living organisms that live in and interact with each other in a specific environment.
____________________ 4. This element is also known as ‘Natural element’ such as plants, animals, microorganisms, and men constitute the biosphere.
____________________ 5. A methodological study of the situation that includes the review of all biophysical and anthropogenic conditions or
circumstances under which an organism lives.
____________________ 6. The Environmental Principle that states, Humans have to understand nature and obey their rules to ensure a continuous and
 steady supply of resources; one must not go against natural processes.
____________________ 7. Variety of species, genes, ecosystems, and interactions among organisms
____________________ 8. Earth’s natural systems and human culture systems can survive, flourish, and adapt to the changing environmental conditions
into a very long-term future.
____________________ 9. These are materials and energy in nature that is essential or useful to humans.
____________________ 10. This mean that all organisms in an ecosystem are dependent on each other.
____________________ 11. An ecological relationship where members of one species (the predator) consume other species (the prey).
____________________ 12. A biotic competent that needs to eat food that autotrophs have produced

HORIZONTAL:

____________________ 13. The living organisms of habitat and their surrounding environment function together as a single unit
____________________ 14. Are processes from healthy ecosystems that support life and human economies.

____________________ 15. Biotic component that has the ability to can make their own food

____________________ 16. Provides necessary power to plants to produce nutrients and warms up the planet

____________________ 17. Biotic component that breaks down the dead tissue and waste products.

____________________ 18. This is the circulation of chemicals necessary for life from the environment to organisms and back to the environment
____________________ 19. The physical and chemical factors that act on living organisms at any part of their life, also known as ecological factors.

____________________ 20. A large-scale community of organisms, primarily defined on land by the dominant plant types that exist in geographic
regions of the planet with similar climatic conditions
____________________ 21. This type of element limits the variable character of the human habitat, its opportunities as well as limitations.
____________________ 22. This type of element includes social, economic, and political elements and are mostly human-made features that make
cultural milieu.
____________________ 23. The role of an organism in the environment.
____________________ 24. The concept of the ecosystem best exemplifies this principle, “The only permanent thing is change. The world is steadily
changing, and nothing is stable anymore.”
____________________ 25. This includes all the biophysical entities and the processes that contribute to providing all humans and other living beings
the basic needs of life