Ecosystem Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. The role that a plant or animal plays in its habitat.
  2. 6. A community of organisms and the environment in which they live in.
  3. 7. A living thing that cannot make its own food and must eat other living things.
  4. 9. forest: An area with tall trees, warm climates, and a lot of rain.
  5. 11. Ecosystem: When something disturbs natures normal workings.
  6. 14. An animal or other organism that hunts and kills other organisms primarily for food.
  7. 15. A type of predator
  8. 17. parts of an ecosystem:______ parts of an ecosystem grow, change, produce waste, reproduce, and die. Some examples of living things are organisms such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria.
  9. 19. organisms that produce food.
  10. 20. A large, barren region with no trees.
  11. 21. The specific place where an organism lives and can find everything it needs to survive.
  12. 25. The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct.
  13. 27. The living things inside of an ecosystem.
  14. 28. parts of an ecosystem: _____ parts of an ecosystem are rock,soil,sand,sunlight,water.
Down
  1. 1. The most important source of energy in an ecosystem.
  2. 2. Is a necessary part of the food chain because it allows all parts of the food chain to use power to work.
  3. 4. A dry often sandy area where hardly any plants grow because there is so little rain.
  4. 5. All the organisms of the same kind that live together in a given way.
  5. 8. _______get their energy from eating meat or other animals.
  6. 10. fungi that break down dead things.
  7. 12. An area of land that mostly contains grasses with little rain.
  8. 13. Ecosystem: All the parts of the ecosystem that come together to help each other thrive.
  9. 16. Web: A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains
  10. 18. A kind of decomposer that you sometimes eat.
  11. 21. get their energy by eating plants.
  12. 22. __________get their energy by eating plants and other animals.
  13. 23. Chain: A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms and ending at predator species
  14. 24. All of the living and nonliving things that surround and affect an organism.
  15. 25. An animal that is hunted and killed by a predator for food.
  16. 26. When there is leftover food in the food chain.