Food Webs

2. living parts of an ecosystem (water, soil, sun, air, temperature)
5. breaks down dead organisms (fungi, bacteria)
6. interconnected food chains
9. position in a food chain
12. one organism hunts another
14. simple path of energy flow
17. process of breaking down dead matter
19. eats both plants and animals
22. the process where cells break down sugar (glucose) to make energy (ATP), releasing carbon dioxide and water.
23. eats primary consumers
24. eats secondary consumers

1. plants use sunlight to make food
3. nonliving parts of an ecosystem (plants, animals)
4. organisms competing for the same resources
7. movement of energy through an ecosystem
8. top-level predator (apex predator)
10. organisms that cannot produce their own food and must consume other organisms for energy
11. living and nonliving things interacting
13. eats dead organic material (worms, beetles, termites)
15. eats animals
16. eats plants
18. organism that makes its own food
20. shows energy at each trophic level
21. eats producers