Food Chains and Food webs

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Across
  1. 2. An animal that eats other animals, e.g. a manta ray is a copepod predator.
  2. 5. An animal that feeds on plants.
  3. 6. An organism that feeds on secondary consumers. For example, octopi eat crabs.
  4. 7. The process by which producers create sugar (and therefore energy) from carbon dioxide and water using sunlight.
  5. 9. An animal that feeds on both plants and animals.
  6. 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.
  7. 11. An animal that feeds on animals.
  8. 13. An individual living thing such as an animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
Down
  1. 1. An organism that feeds on a producer. For example, a sea snail that eats seagrass (kelp).
  2. 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.
  3. 4. An organism that feeds on a primary consumer. For example, a crab eats sea snails.
  4. 8. An animal that is eaten by another animal, e.g. a crown-of-thorns starfish is the prey of the triton’s trumpet.
  5. 12. This is passed along a food chain