Reading Buddies Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. chain how organisms get energy from eating other organisms
  2. 4. microscopic plants
  3. 7. wearing down of Earth's surface often by water or wind
  4. 8. an object too small to be seen with our eyes
  5. 10. an animal without a backbone
  6. 12. an animal that kills and eats other animals
  7. 14. an animal that eats dead or decaying material
  8. 16. organisms at risk of becoming extinct
  9. 17. land saturated by water at least part of the year
Down
  1. 1. microscopic animals
  2. 3. an animal that eats plants to survive
  3. 5. an animal that eats both meat and plants to survive
  4. 6. an animal that eats meat to survive
  5. 9. an animal that is eaten by another animal
  6. 11. a place in an ecosystem where an animal lives
  7. 13. an animal with a backbone
  8. 15. something an animal is born with, or does, to survive