Chapter 8 Matter and Energy Transfer

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Across
  1. 3. third trophic level; a carnivore that eats herbivores
  2. 8. an organism that feeds on both plants and animals
  3. 9. breaks down organic matter into small pieces such as crabs, earthworms
  4. 11. meat eater
  5. 13. the total mass of living matter in a given space
  6. 15. transfer of energy from one tropic level to the next
  7. 16. natural cycle of minerals and other nutrients in the environment
Down
  1. 1. the second trophic level of the food chain
  2. 2. a diagram of organisms at each trophic level
  3. 4. the fourth trophic level; carnivores that eat carnivores
  4. 5. a one way series of steps of food and nutrients in a ecosystem
  5. 6. a pyramid of diagram of living matter by each tropic level
  6. 7. feeds on plants or algae
  7. 10. breaks down dead organic matter
  8. 12. feeding relationships of hundreds of species
  9. 14. a level that describes an individuals source of food