Food web

1. "simple sugar" chemical produced by many plants during photosynthesis.
3. organism that produces its own food through photosynthesis and whose cells have walls.
5. organism that consumes dead plant material.
8. process by which plants turn water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide into water, oxygen, and simple sugars.
10. organism on the food chain that can produce its own energy and nutrients. Also called an autotroph.
11. animal that is hunted and eaten by other animals.

2. organism that eats a variety of organisms, including plants, animals, and fungi.
4. to rot or decompose.
6. all related food chains in an ecosystem. Also called a food cycle.
7. organism on the food chain that depends on autotrophs (producers) or other consumers for food, nutrition, and energy
9. composed of material that is not living, and never was, such as rock.