Food Chains and Food Webs

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Across
  1. 3. Simple living organisms that usually live in water and make their own food using sunlight.
  2. 6. An animal that eats both plants and animals.
  3. 10. An animal that hunts and eats another animal.
  4. 11. A group of living things that are the same type and can reproduce together.
  5. 14. A living thing, such as fungi or bacteria, that breaks down dead plants and animals into nutrients.
  6. 15. Pyramid, A diagram that shows how energy and the number of organisms change at different levels of a food chain.
  7. 18. Energy from the Sun that plants use to make food.
  8. 20. Everything around a living thing, including other living things, air, water, soil and sunlight.
  9. 21. A liquid that all living things need to survive.
  10. 22. All the living and non-living things in one place.
  11. 23. The place where a living thing lives.
  12. 25. Many food chains joined together.
  13. 27. A living thing.
  14. 28. An animal that is hunted and eaten.
  15. 29. A small sea animal that lives in groups and builds coral reefs, which provide habitats for many organisms.
  16. 30. Living things, such as mushrooms and mould, that break down dead material and recycle nutrients.
  17. 31. Too small to see without a microscope.
Down
  1. 1. A diagram that shows who eats whom.
  2. 2. An animal that eats dead plants, dead animals and waste material.
  3. 4. A living thing that gets energy by eating plants or animals.
  4. 5. An animal that eats dead plants, dead animals and waste material.
  5. 7. The process where plants use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to make their own food.
  6. 8. A living thing that makes its own food using sunlight.
  7. 9. Anything that has mass and takes up space. All living and non-living things are made of matter.
  8. 12. The top layer of Earth where plants grow. It contains minerals, water, air and living organisms.
  9. 13. Flow, The movement of energy from one living thing to another through a food chain or food web.
  10. 16. Substances that living things need to grow, repair and stay healthy.
  11. 17. Predator, A predator at the top of a food chain that is not normally hunted by other animals.
  12. 19. An animal that only eats other animals.
  13. 24. An animal that only eats plants.
  14. 26. Tiny microscopic organisms. Some bacteria help break down dead material and recycle nutrients.