Ecosystems - Getting Food
Across
- 2. the shape of teeth that are best suited for grinding plant matter
- 4. the shape of teeth that are best suited for cutting or tearing flesh
- 6. the size of the digestive tract that is best suited to extracting maximum nutrients from meat
- 7. a living thing that eats only plant matter
- 8. living thing that eats only animal matter
- 9. a living thing that eats both plant and animal matter
- 10. the size of the digestive tract that is best suited for extracting maximum nutrients from plant matter
- 11. an animal that gets eaten by a predator
- 12. a complex model that shows the transfer of matter and energy in an ecosystem through many possible paths
Down
- 1. a living thing that eats other animals
- 2. a simple model that shows the transfer of matter and energy in an ecosystem as a single path
- 3. a living thing that must eat other living things to gain nutrients
- 5. a living thing that gets nutrients by breaking down decaying matter
- 6. the source of all energy in most ecosystems
- 11. living thing that is capable of making its own food through chemical reactions