Studies Weekly: Matter Flow in Ecosystems

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Across
  1. 3. rotting meat
  2. 6. an organism that must eat food to get new matter and energy for its body
  3. 7. to break food down into smaller pieces
  4. 9. a building block of matter used by organisms to grow
  5. 10. a model that connects all the food chains in an ecosystem
  6. 11. a scientist who studies ecosystems
Down
  1. 1. the process through which plants create their food
  2. 2. an organism that makes its own food
  3. 4. matter that is or was alive
  4. 5. a model that shows the order in which organisms depend on each other for food
  5. 8. A very specialized consumer that only eats dead and decaying organic matter