Vocabulary Crossword

5. An organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
6. The role that an organism plays in a community
9. A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another
10. Organism that breaks down dead organic material
11. A living organism that shapes its environment
14. An organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.
15. Depend on producers for food nutrition and energy

1. All of the food chains in an ecosystem
2. An organism with wide food preferences which can eat both plant and animal matter
3. A non-living part of an ecosystem
4. An organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass such as meat or rotting plant material
7. Photosynthezing organisms
8. An organism that mostly feeds on plants
12. An organism that mostly eats meat or animal flesh
13. A place where an organism makes its home