Ecosystem Crossword

2. web/ a network of interconnected food chains showing the energy flow through part of an ecosystem
4. an animal that gets its energy by eating other animals
6. a group of organisms of one species, living in the same area at the same time
8. level/ as the position of an organism in a food chain, food web or pyramid of biomass, numbers or energy
10. consumer/ herbivores
11. an organism that makes its own organic nutrients, usually using energy from sunlight, through photosynthesis
14. a unit containing all of the organisms and their environment, interacting together, in a given area e.g. decomposing log or a lake
15. the place where an organism lives

1. consumer/ carnivores that eat herbivores
3. pyramids/ A graphical representation in the shape of a pyramid to show the feeding relationship of groups of organisms, and the flow of energy or biomass through the different trophic levels in a given ecosystem.
5. an organism that gets its energy from dead or waste organic matter
7. consumer/ organisms that feed at the fourth stage in a food chain; they eat carnivores
9. an animal that gets its energy by eating plants
12. all the organisms, of all the different species, living in an area at the same time
13. as an organism that gets its energy by feeding on other organisms