Food Chains and Food webs
Across
- 2. An animal that eats other animals, e.g. a manta ray is a copepod predator.
- 5. An animal that feeds on plants.
- 6. An organism that feeds on secondary consumers. For example, octopi eat crabs.
- 7. The process by which producers create sugar (and therefore energy) from carbon dioxide and water using sunlight.
- 9. An animal that feeds on both plants and animals.
- 10. A living thing that relies on feeding on other living things for its energy, e.g. a shark is a consumer because it eats fish, or a sea urchin is a consumer because it eats algae.
- 11. An animal that feeds on animals.
- 13. An individual living thing such as an animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
Down
- 1. An organism that feeds on a producer. For example, a sea snail that eats seagrass (kelp).
- 3. A living thing that produces energy via photosynthesis, e.g. algae is a producer because it creates energy from sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water rather than eating something else.
- 4. An organism that feeds on a primary consumer. For example, a crab eats sea snails.
- 8. An animal that is eaten by another animal, e.g. a crown-of-thorns starfish is the prey of the triton’s trumpet.
- 12. This is passed along a food chain