Ecosystem - Harry Eynon

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Across
  1. 1. an organism that can feed on both plant and animal sources
  2. 5. an animal that gets its energy from eating plants, and only plants
  3. 7. Organisms that break down dead plant or animal material to get their nutrients
  4. 9. an organism that eats mostly meat, or the flesh of animals
  5. 10. The path of energy in the form of food from one organism to another
  6. 12. A community of organisms where there are several overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem
  7. 14. a sustainable habitat of interdependent animals, plants, and microorganisms and their environment
  8. 16. refers predominantly to animal, are unable to make their own energy, and rely on the consumption and digestion of producers or other consumers, or both, to survive
  9. 18. An object that does not grow, take in nutrients, or reproduce
  10. 19. the place where a population lives in an ecosystem
  11. 21. Populations of different organisms living in an environment
  12. 22. an animal that is hunted or eaten by other animals
Down
  1. 2. The role or job of an organism or population in the environment
  2. 3. everything living and everything nonliving
  3. 4. an animal that hunts or eats other animals
  4. 6. when a natural- or human-caused disturbance disrupts the natural balance of an ecosystem
  5. 8. most often sunlight
  6. 11. Individuals of the same species in the same environment
  7. 13. community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
  8. 15. the process by which plants convert energy from sunlight into energy for food
  9. 17. organisms that interact with each other
  10. 20. Living things that produce (or make/create) their own food and feed primary consumers