Food Chain

3. A consumer that eats both plants and animals (e.g., humans).
5. A community of interacting organisms and their environment.
8. An organism that eats dead animals (e.g., vulture).
9. Organism that makes its own food using sunlight (e.g., plants).
10. An animal that hunts other animals for food.
11. What flows through a food web from producers to consumers.
12. A consumer that only eats meat (e.g., lion).
13. Process plants use to make food from sunlight.
14. The gradual buildup of toxins (e.g., DDT) in an organism’s tissues over its lifetime, even from low environmental levels

1. Breaks down dead matter (e.g., fungi, bacteria).
2. The top predator in a food web.
4. A consumer that only eats plants (e.g., deer).
6. An animal that eats other organisms for energy.
7. Process where toxins (e.g., mercury) become more concentrated as they move up the food chain, affecting top predators most severely.
9. An animal that is hunted by predators.