Ecosystems and Biogeochemical Cycles
Across
- 3. A diagram that shows how energy decreases at each level.\
- 4. Many connected food chains in an ecosystem.
- 6. An organism that must eat other organisms for energy.
- 7. An organism that eats other organisms.
- 8. The regrowth of an ecosystem after a disturbance like a fire.
- 10. A plant or algae that makes its own food.
- 12. A top predator that eats secondary consumers.
- 14. An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals.
- 18. A simple path that shows how energy moves from one organism to another.
- 20. An animal that only eats plants.
Down
- 1. An animal that eats primary consumers.
- 2. The process plants use to make food using sunlight.
- 5. The growth of an ecosystem in an area with no life before.
- 9. Nonliving parts of an environment like sunlight and water.
- 11. An animal that eats producers like plants.
- 13. A community of living and nonliving things interacting together.
- 15. An organism that makes its own food.
- 16. An animal that only eats other animals.
- 17. Living parts of an ecosystem.
- 19. An animal that eats both plants and animals.