Vocabulary word puzzle
Across
- 4. an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals
- 5. an organism that creates its own food or energy
- 8. an animal that feeds on plants
- 10. organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms
- 11. the role an organism plays in a community
- 13. an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
- 15. from living things
- 16. a place where an organism makes its home
- 17. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another
Down
- 1. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
- 2. a person or group that purchaces goods
- 3. consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem
- 6. a living organism that shapes its environment
- 7. something everybody eats
- 9. an organism that eats plants and animals
- 12. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
- 14. an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material