Ecosystems

6. A complex diagram showing many overlapping ways energy and matter flow in a community.
8. provides the energy for plants to turn air and water into food.
10. An organism like fungi or bacteria that breaks down dead matter and recycles nutrients.
11. Transports water and nutrients to the leaves
13. An animal at the very top of the food chain with no natural predators.
16. Along with air, this liquid provides the actual matter (weight) a plant needs to grow.

1. Any individual living thing
2. A single, linear path showing "who eats whom" to transfer energy.
3. A term used to describe the living parts of an ecosystem.
4. All the living and non-living things in an area interacting with each other.
5. Absorbs sunlight to create food for energy and growth
7. A behavior that helps an organism survive in a new environment.
9. While it provides nutrients, this is not where most of a plant's mass/matter comes from.
12. An organism (like a plant) that makes its own food using energy from the sun.
14. A term for non-living factors in an environment
15. The part of the plant that takes in water, which is one of the two main sources of matter for growth.