Vocabulary Crossword

2. An organism that eats plants and animals.
3. The natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism.
7. An organism that cannot produce its own food and must obtain energy by consuming other organisms, like plants or animals, to survive.
11. The sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism.
12. An organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.
14. An organism that mostly feeds on plants.
15. Any organism that breaks down or eats decaying material for its energy source.

1. A complex network of interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding relationships within a community.
4. A living organism that affects its environment and is a component of an ecosystem.
5. A nonliving part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
6. An organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy.
8. Organisms that make their own food.
9. Animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation or have been killed by other predators.
10. An organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals.
13. The specific role an organism plays within its ecosystem, encompassing the environmental conditions it needs, the resources it utilizes, and its interactions with other species in that environment.