Ecology
Across
- 2. organism that is hunted as food
- 3. states that only ten percent of the available energy in a trophic level is passed to the next trophic level
- 5. organism that makes its own food
- 9. organism that makes its own food using light or chemical energy
- 13. a predator that has no predators in the ecosystem
- 16. eats primary consumers
- 18. organism that eats only plants
- 19. organism that "hunts" animals for food
- 20. eats secondary consumers
Down
- 1. organism that breaks down dead materials to return essential nutrients back to the environment
- 4. diagram showing the trophic levels in an ecosystem
- 6. eats producers
- 7. organism that eats both plants and other consumers
- 8. shows the flow of energy through an ecosystem, multiple interconnected food chains
- 10. organism that eats only other consumers
- 11. where the other 90% of energy from a trophic level ends up
- 12. shows the flow of energy between organisms
- 14. organism that eats other organisms to get its energy
- 15. eats tertiary consumers
- 17. organism that gets its energy from another organism