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Complete the crossword puzzle below
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Across
3. primary consumer of plant tissue
7. increasing concentrations of pollutants in animals at successively
higher trophic levels
8. microbial process of converting organic matter into soluble, inorganic
nutrients
9. cycle through which C3 plants fix carbon
10. typically the most limiting nutrient in aquatic systems
Down
1. main organismal source of NPP in open ocean
2. microbial process of reducing nitrate and nitrite to gaseous forms of
nitrogen
4. pollutants become progressively more concentrated in the body over
an organism’s lifetime
5. overenrichment with nutrients
6. gaseous forms & small particles of nutrients attached to water
droplets, dust, organic matter