Trophic Level Vocabulary Hunt

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Across
  1. 5. Part of the fourth trophic level,organisms here eat secondary and primary consumers
  2. 8. Part of the second trophic level, organisms here eat producers
  3. 9. Cannot make their own food from inorganic sources, so they feed off other organisms
  4. 11. Part of the third trophic level,organisms here feed on primary consumers
  5. 12. Organisms who cannot make their own food from inorganic matter, so they hunt or gather food
  6. 15. Light harvesting cellular structures inside plants and other living things
  7. 16. Comprised of many food chains that are linked together
  8. 17. Part of the consumers group, called primary consumers, which are organisms that eat plants.
  9. 18. A level of a group of organisms in a food chain,food web,or an ecological pyramid.
Down
  1. 1. Organisms that eat other organisms
  2. 2. Animals that feed off plants and animals
  3. 3. Various trophic levels in a pyramid diagram that showcases the feeding relationship between organisms
  4. 4. Living things that make their own food from inorganic sources
  5. 6. In the last part of the trophic level,organisms here break down dead plants and animal matter
  6. 7. Part of the first trophic level,living things, like plants, that can make their own food from abiotic materials
  7. 10. The chemical process in which a plant creates its food from the sun
  8. 12. Photosynthetic pigments that absorb sunlight and convert it into energy
  9. 13. Animals that consume broken-down organic material, like animal matter
  10. 14. Hierarchy in which organisms in an ecosystem are grouped into trophic levels.