Food Webs and Energy Pyramids

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Across
  1. 4. – model showing many connected food chains
  2. 5. – organism that eats other organisms for energy
  3. 6. – main source of energy for most ecosystems
  4. 9. – consumers that eat primary consumers
  5. 10. – ability to do work; flows through ecosystems
  6. 11. – model showing one pathway of energy flow
  7. 12. – first level of consumers that eat producers
  8. 14. – consumers that eat other consumers
  9. 15. – position in the flow of energy in a food web
  10. 16. – living and nonliving things interacting in an area
  11. 17. – consumer that eats animals and other consumers
Down
  1. 1. – consumer that eats both producers and consumers
  2. 2. – total amount of living matter in a level
  3. 3. – organism that breaks down dead matter
  4. 7. – organism that makes its own food using sunlight
  5. 8. – form of energy lost at each trophic level
  6. 10. – diagram showing energy loss between trophic levels; shaped like a triangle
  7. 13. – consumer that eats plants and other producers