Food Chains & Food Webs: Energy Flow in Ecosystems

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Across
  1. 3. --A living thing who eats other living things
  2. 10. --That which tends to prove or disprove an idea; something that provides grounds for belief. We tend to highlight it in yellow...
  3. 11. --An animal who eats both plant materials and animal materials; for example, a brown bear may eat fish (animal), insects(animal), berries(plant), and nuts(plant), so a brown bear is this type of eater/"-vore"/consumer.
  4. 13. --An animal who eats only plants or plant materials (such as the nuts or berries that plants produce); a consumer of vegetation
  5. 15. --Anything that takes up space (has physical volume) and has at least a tiny bit of weight; it can exist in different phases, such as solid, liquid, or gas
  6. 17. --To see, watch, listen, hear, perceive, or notice; to regard with attention
  7. 18. Flow --The movement of material through an ecosystem, such as through food chains and food webs
Down
  1. 1. --A living thing, often a plant, that creates (or "produces") its own food
  2. 2. --The relationship that connects multiple living things through what they eat and what they are eaten by
  3. 4. --An animal who eats only meat; a consumer of other animals; one of the "-vore" vocabulary words
  4. 5. --Having life; being alive; in existence
  5. 6. --An individual person's subjective view, attitude, or appraisal; what one person thinks or feels about something
  6. 7. --An animal who is hunted and eaten by another animal
  7. 8. --Many different food chains found in one place
  8. 9. --A form of life; for example, one individual animal, one individual plant, one individual fungus, or one individual fungus. Any living thing.
  9. 10. --The ability to do work or to take action
  10. 12. --An organism, often a bacterium or a fungus, but sometimes an animal such as a worm or a caterpillar, that breaks down the cells of dead plants or animals into simpler substances
  11. 14. --An act or instance of noticing, perceiving, or paying attention to something
  12. 16. --An animal who hunts and eats other animals; a consumer of meat
  13. 18. --A pretend version of something that scientists use when the real thing is either too big, too small, or too complicated to work with; for example, the cards in the food chain game "Eat or Be Eaten" or the cards in the food web activity "Dino Die-Off"