7th grade science
Across
- 3. Chain a diagram that shows the feeding relationship between a producer and a single chain or consumers in a particular organism - shows who eats who
- 5. consumers that eat other animals
- 10. all the living AND nonliving things that interact in an area
- 11. Consumers an organism that eats secondary consumers
- 13. consumers that eat animals and plants
- 14. the study of the relationships between organisms and the environment in which they live
- 15. Consumers usually herbivores that feed on plants
- 16. / Autotrophs make their own food by changing energy from the sun into chemical energy
- 18. an organism that consumes the bodies of dead organisms and waste produced by living organisms (ex: earthworms/maggots)
- 21. one living thing
Down
- 1. all the different populations that live together in an area
- 2. organisms of one species living together in the same place at the same time
- 4. get their energy by breaking down dead plant and animal matter (ex: bacteria/fungi)
- 6. consumers that eat plants
- 7. consumers that feed on dead plant and animal matter (ex: vultures/hyenas)
- 8. / Heterotrophs get their energy by eating (consuming) other organisms
- 9. the part of the Earth (including land, air, surface rocks, water) in which life occurs
- 12. Level the position an organism occupies in a food chain
- 17. Factors living parts of the ecosystem
- 19. Consumers mostly carnivores that prey on other animals
- 20. Factors a nonliving part of the ecosystem (water, wind, sunlight, weather)