Food Chain

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Across
  1. 3. – What type of consumer eats other animals?
  2. 4. – What animal is at the top of the food chain with no natural predators?
  3. 6. – What top predator is shown at the end of several food chains?
  4. 7. – What microscopic decomposers recycle nutrients in soil?
  5. 8. – What consumer eats both plants and animals?
  6. 11. – What process allows some bacteria to make food without sunlight?
  7. 13. – What consumer eats primary consumers?
  8. 14. – What consumer eats frogs in the example food chain?
  9. 17. – What type of decomposer includes mushrooms?
  10. 19. – What living things are at the beginning of most food chains?
  11. 20. – What secondary consumer eats grasshoppers?
  12. 22. – What organisms must eat other living things for energy?
  13. 23. – What is the act of eating plants called?
  14. 25. – What is the first consumer that eats producers?
  15. 28. – What substances are returned to the soil by decomposers?
  16. 29. – What shows many connected food chains in an ecosystem?
Down
  1. 1. – What consumer eats secondary consumers?
  2. 2. – What is the act of one animal hunting and eating another?
  3. 5. – What process do plants use to make their own food?
  4. 9. – What do all living things need to survive and grow?
  5. 10. – What sugar is produced during photosynthesis?
  6. 12. – What primary consumer eats grass in a grassland food chain?
  7. 15. – What is a community of living things interacting with their environment?
  8. 16. – What organisms break down dead plants and animals?
  9. 17. – What shows how energy moves from one organism to another?
  10. 18. – What organisms make their own food using sunlight?
  11. 21. – What is the main source of energy for nearly all life on Earth?
  12. 24. – What type of consumer eats only plants?
  13. 26. – What gas is released during photosynthesis?
  14. 27. – What energy source is needed for photosynthesis?