Food Chains and Food Webs

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Across
  1. 3. one basic need of plants and animals; the ability to make things move
  2. 5. organism that gets its energy directly from the Sun; cells turn sunlight into food through photosynthesis
  3. 6. type of decomposer that breaks down waste into smaller pieces and returns it back to the soil
  4. 10. the process in which plants make their own food; sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
  5. 11. an organism that only eats dead or nonliving things
  6. 12. an organism that feeds on producers; an organism that must consume another organism to get energy; cannot get its energy from the Sun
  7. 14. a type of decomposer; widely distributed and can break down just about any type of organic matter
Down
  1. 1. a consumer that only eats plants
  2. 2. a single, self-contained living thing
  3. 4. all the living and nonliving things in an area
  4. 7. a consumer that eats only animals
  5. 8. an interconnected set of food chains; shows how energy is transferred between organisms in an ecosystem
  6. 9. a representation of how energy and nutrients are passed from creature to creature; the Sun, to producers, to consumers, to decomposers
  7. 13. a consumer that eats both plants and animals