Ecosystems and Biogeochemical Cycles Project

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Across
  1. 6. the ability to do work or cause change
  2. 8. an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals
  3. 10. an organism that can produce its own food
  4. 11. an organism, like bacteria or fungi, that breaks down dead plants and animals, recycling their nutrients back into the environment by feeding on decaying matter
  5. 13. a community of living organisms
  6. 14. an organism that eats plants and animals
  7. 16. living things
  8. 18. non living things
  9. 19. an organism that cannot make its own food and must eat other plants or animals to get energy
  10. 20. top of the food chain
Down
  1. 1. an organism that eats primary consumers
  2. 2. an organism that cannot make its own food
  3. 3. an organism's position within a food chain
  4. 4. an organism that eats dead and decaying organic matter
  5. 5. an organism that can create its own food
  6. 7. an organism that eats producers
  7. 9. the rate at which organisms within an ecosystem produce new organic matter
  8. 12. a diagram that illustrates how energy flows through different levels of organisms in an ecosystem
  9. 15. an organism that mostly feeds on plants
  10. 16. the total mass of all living organisms within a specific area or ecosystem at a given time
  11. 17. a process where organisms, usually bacteria, create food by using chemical energy from inorganic compounds instead of sunlight