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