Energy Flow
Across
- 4. of numbers: illustrates the number of organisms in each trophic level
- 5. web: illustrates all food chains in an ecosystem
- 8. pyramid: illustrates how energy is transferred from each trophic level
- 13. an organism that obtains its food from other organisms
- 14. an organism that eats other organisms
- 15. consumer: eats the primary consumer
- 17. eats plants and animals
Down
- 1. consumer: eats the producer
- 2. eats plants
- 3. chain: illustrates how energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next
- 6. breaks down decaying organic matter
- 7. an organism that provides food for itself and other organisms (ex: plants, phytoplankton)
- 9. consumer: eats the secondary consumer
- 10. pyramid: illustrates the mass of living organisms in each trophic level
- 11. level: the number of steps an organism is from the start of the chain (ex: producer, primary consumer)
- 12. an organism that makes its own food
- 16. eats only animals