Food Chains, Ecosystems, Food Webs

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Across
  1. 2. an organism that consumes dead biomass without the need for internal digestion
  2. 5. A group of overlapping or connected food chains
  3. 7. A model that shows the flow of energy from one feeding level to the next
  4. 9. organism that regularly consumes a variety of material including plants, animals and fungi
  5. 12. a natural environment where an organism lives
  6. 13. Freshwater or Saltwater based community of organisms and interactions of biotic and abiotic components in a given area
  7. 15. non-living organisms in an ecosystem
  8. 17. the movement of food energy from one organism to another
  9. 20. animal that eats other animals that eat plants
  10. 22. organism that gets its energy by feeding on producers
  11. 24. special quality or appearance that makes a group different
  12. 26. found where salt water from oceans mixes with fresh water from rivers
  13. 28. what is needed o do work or cause change
  14. 29. land based community of organisms and interaction of biotic and abiotic components in a given area.
Down
  1. 1. animal at the top of the food chain
  2. 3. A group of the same species living in the same area
  3. 4. living organisms in an ecosystems
  4. 6. those that eat secondary consumers
  5. 8. Non-native species that disturbs the ecosystem in which it has been introduced
  6. 10. all of the living & nonliving things & their interactions.
  7. 11. organism that feeds mostly on plants
  8. 14. Delicate ecosystem built up from the secretions of tiny marine organisms
  9. 16. to become greater in size, number, or amount
  10. 18. to become less or smaller in size, number, or amount
  11. 19. a single, self-contained living thing
  12. 21. The role an organism plays in an ecosystem
  13. 23. an organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy
  14. 24. animal that eats mostly meat or the flesh of other animals
  15. 25. heritable trait that helps plants and animals survive and reproduce
  16. 27. an organism that gets energy from eating another organism