Plants Needs and Ecosystem Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. a sugar that plants produce during photosynthesis; the plants food
  2. 7. organisms that break down dead plants and animals into smaller pieces and recycle the nutrients back into the ecosystem
  3. 10. organisms that make their own food using energy from the sun
  4. 12. living things
  5. 13. organisms that break down dead plants and animals into smaller pieces and recycle the nutrients back into the ecosystem
Down
  1. 1. the process used by plants to turn sunlight into energy
  2. 2. involves plant a fish together in a system
  3. 3. a pigment found in plant cells that captures sunlight and uses it to make energy for the plant
  4. 4. web shows how matter moves through an ecosystem
  5. 6. organisms that eat other organisms
  6. 8. microscopic openings in plant leaves, stems, petals that take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen
  7. 9. plants are grown in water instead of soil
  8. 11. a colorless, odorless gas found in the air