Environment
Across
- 1. web all of the food chains in an ecosystem
- 4. physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
- 6. an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material
- 7. an organism that captures and eats another (the prey)
- 10. organisms that make their own food
- 11. Species an organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area
- 14. an organism that mostly feeds on plants.
- 15. chain a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another
- 17. Pyramid a graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem
Down
- 2. an organism that eats plants and animals
- 3. relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.
- 5. consumer animals that eat plants
- 8. An organism, often a bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem
- 9. Consumer The organisms that prey on the secondary consumers
- 12. consumer The organisms that eat the primary consumers
- 13. is any animal that serves as a food source for another animal.
- 16. an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals