Forest Food Webs
Across
- 5. a large animal that eats grass
- 6. an animal that eats its own kind
- 9. an animal that eats only other animals
- 11. green pigment inside a plant's leaves that traps the energy of sunlight
- 15. an example of a grazer
- 16. an animal that hunts other animals
- 17. herbivores have large back ones for grinding up their food
- 19. omnivores’ teeth are less ___________ than the teeth of herbivores or carnivores
- 22. an example of a browser
- 23. a beak shape for tearing up flesh
- 24. teeth used to stab prey
- 25. many food chains woven together (2 words)
- 26. teeth used to cut into flesh
Down
- 1. claws used by birds for stabbing an gripping prey
- 2. a sweet liquid produced by many flowers
- 3. very small decomposers that release carbon dioxide and minerals
- 4. used by wild boars to dig in soil and find food
- 7. a large animal that eats leaves of trees
- 8. many caterpillars are _____________, so don't touch them
- 10. the process by which plants use energy from the sun, water, and carbon dioxide to make sugar
- 11. an adaptation that makes an animal hard to distinguish from its background environment
- 12. eats both plants and animals
- 13. animals that eat only plants
- 14. used to show the energy flow in a food chain or web
- 18. a decomposer that is neither plant nor animal
- 20. teeth used for cracking open bones
- 21. an organism that breaks down dead organism or waste products to obtain energy
- 27. the shape of a beak used by a woodpecker to strike the wood of a tree
- 28. a tiny plant and its store of food protected by a tough coat