Ecosystems
Across
- 2. the predator at the top of the energy pyramid, whose only natural predator is humans
- 3. this includes worms or bacteria that break down every organism once they die
- 5. the consumer that is an herbivore, and eats the producer (a grasshopper, for example)
- 7. a factor in the environment that is not living
- 10. this is an organism that only/mostly eats meat
- 11. this is where the producers get their energy from
- 12. these are organisms that eat other ones (not producers, the other word)
- 13. about 10% of this is lost with every trophic level you go up in the energy pyramid
Down
- 1. this is an organism that only eats plants
- 4. this is an organism that eats plants and animals
- 6. followed by the word 'capacity,' this is the max population an environment can sustain
- 8. a factor in the environment that is living
- 9. this is a type of factors that limits an organism's survival in their environment
- 11. the consumer that is an omnivore, and eats the primary consumer (a mouse, for example)