Energy Transfer in Ecosystems
Across
- 5. the source of energy for use and storage at the cellular level
- 7. an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
- 10. an organelle found in large numbers in most cells
- 11. a process in living organisms involving the production of energy
- 13. a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food
Down
- 1. a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place
- 2. an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances
- 3. responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis
- 4. an animal that feeds on plants
- 6. the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water
- 8. an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide
- 9. a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains
- 12. an animal that feeds on flesh