Food chains and food webs (2)
Across
- 1. is eaten by a predator
- 2. a level or a position in a food chain, a food web, or an ecological pyramid (two words)
- 5. an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy
- 6. an animal that eats plants and meat
- 8. ___________ feeder, meaning an animal that will adapt its diet to what’s available
- 9. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another (two words)
- 12. a consumer (carnivore or omnivore)that eats primary consumers
- 13. ___________ feeder, meaning an animal that has a very limited diet and habitat
- 15. a consumer (carnivore or omnivore)that eats secondary consumers
- 17. the source of all the energy in a food web
Down
- 1. eats prey
- 3. an animal that eats only plants
- 4. an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.
- 7. consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem and describe the relationships — links or connections — among species in an ecosystem (two words)
- 10. a predator at the top of the food chain
- 11. a consumer (herbivore or omnivore) that eats producers
- 14. an organism that makes its own food
- 16. an animal that eats only meat