Energy Transfer

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Across
  1. 2. Organisms that cannot produce their own food and have to eat/consume other organisms for energy
  2. 4. Organisms that are at the top of a food chain and lack natural predators
  3. 5. Organisms that eat secondary consumers
  4. 6. Break down the complex compounds of dead and decaying plants and animals into simpler molecules that can be more easily absorbed/recycled
  5. 9. Feed on the organic waste of dead plants and animals
  6. 13. A model that scientists use to show how energy moves through an ecosystem
  7. 14. Organisms that eat the meat and flesh of animals
  8. 15. The position of an organism in the food chain
  9. 16. A graphical representation, showing the flow of energy at each trophic level
Down
  1. 1. All of the food chains in an ecosystem
  2. 3. Eats animals that have already died
  3. 7. Organisms that eat a variety of organisms, plants, animals, fungi, etc
  4. 8. Organisms that eat primary consumers
  5. 10. An organism that can make its own food
  6. 11. Organisms that eat producers
  7. 12. A heterotroph that feeds only on producers