Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. Organisms (like fungi and bacteria) that break down dead matter and recycle nutrients.
  2. 6. Nonliving things in an environment (sunlight, water, soil, temperature).
  3. 8. Web A complex network of many food chains in an ecosystem.
  4. 9. The natural place where an organism lives.
  5. 10. Consumers that eat only animals.
  6. 13. Organisms that must eat other organisms for energy (another word for consumers).
  7. 14. Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
Down
  1. 1. Organisms (like plants) that make their own food through photosynthesis.
  2. 2. The role or job an organism has in its environment.
  3. 3. Organisms that make their own food (another word for producers).
  4. 5. Chain A simple path showing how energy moves from one organism to another.
  5. 7. Living things in an environment (plants, animals, bacteria).
  6. 11. Consumers that eat only plants.
  7. 12. Organisms that cannot make their own food and must eat other organisms.