Food Chains & Food Webs
Across
- 3. - living thing
- 8. special body feature or behavior that helps an organism stay alive
- 9. - the number of different species in an area
- 10. - group of organisms that are the same.
- 12. - all the populations living in one area
- 14. pyramid - shows how energy moves through a food web
- 16. - organism that makes its own food and serves as a source of food for other organisms.
- 17. - animal that kills and eats other animals
- 18. - species that has disappeared from Earth
- 20. - all the interacting living and nonliving things in one area
- 21. - organism that feeds on and breaks down dead organisms
- 23. - all the members of a species living in one area
- 25. - everything around a living thing
- 26. web - all the food chains in an ecosystem
Down
- 1. chain - shows how organisms get food and energy
- 2. - the area in which an organism lives
- 4. - adaptation that helps an organism blend in with its surroundings
- 5. - things in food that organisms need to live
- 6. - in danger of becoming extinct
- 7. - organism that lives in or on another organism and gets its food from it
- 10. - consumer that eats dead plants or animals
- 11. - organism that eats other organisms in a food chain
- 12. - consumer that eats only animals
- 13. - consumer that eats only plants
- 15. - to act with each other
- 17. - animal that is killed and eaten by other animals
- 19. - organism that a parasite lives in or on
- 22. - adaptation in which an organism looks like another organism or thing
- 24. - consumer that eats either plants or animals