Flow of Matter in an Ecosystem

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Across
  1. 3. make their own food
  2. 4. the process that plants use to make their own food
  3. 5. shows the order in which organisms depend on each other for food
  4. 7. to break down food into smaller pieces
  5. 9. animals that eat plants
  6. 12. when you connect all of the food chains in an ecosystem
  7. 14. consumers that only eat dead or decaying matter
  8. 15. used as energy to make food
  9. 16. building blocks used to develop and grow animal bodies
Down
  1. 1. animals that eat other animals
  2. 2. matter that is or was alive
  3. 6. animals that eat both plants and animals
  4. 8. scientists who study ecosystems, collect data, and how matter moves through an ecosystem
  5. 10. these animals must eat food to get new matter and energy for their bodies
  6. 11. a decomposer found everywhere except the artic and antartic
  7. 13. connections that show how animals share resources and how they help each other