Ecosystems
Across
- 3. a living thing that hunts other living things for food
- 8. Chain the path of energy in food from one organism to another
- 10. an animal that only eats plants
- 11. a variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
- 13. an animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals
- 17. Web the overlapping food chains in a community
- 18. an animal that eats both plants and animals
- 19. a nonliving part of an ecosystem including water soil and temperature
- 20. a living thing that is hunted for food
- 23. the role an organism has in its ecosystem
- 24. plants or animals
- 25. organism that cannot make its own food eats plants or other animals
Down
- 1. an animal that eats other animals
- 2. all the organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time
- 4. organism that produces food and oxygen that animals need
- 5. the process in which plants use the sun’s energy to make food
- 6. is a community of living and nonliving organisms that work together
- 7. Factor anything that controls the growth or survival of an organism or population
- 9. breaks down dead organisms into useful things that enrich soil
- 12. the area in which an organism lives
- 14. a characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment such as camouflage
- 15. the study of living things in their environment
- 16. a living part of an ecosystem including animals plants and fungi
- 21. Pyramid a diagram showing earth’s food chain from the ground up
- 22. all the populations living in an area