Energy Flow & Matter Cycling

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Across
  1. 6. The green substance in plants that captures energy from sunlight.
  2. 8. An organism that lives on or in another organism and benefits from it.
  3. 9. An organism that is hunted and eaten by another organism.
  4. 13. The process plants use to make food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
  5. 14. A model that shows one pathway of energy flow in an ecosystem.
  6. 17. Anything that has mass and takes up space.
  7. 18. The variety of living things found in an ecosystem.
  8. 19. A type of sugar made by plants during photosynthesis.
Down
  1. 1. A model that shows how energy decreases at each feeding level.
  2. 2. An organism that makes its own food using energy from the Sun.
  3. 3. An organism that breaks down dead matter and waste.
  4. 4. Living parts of an ecosystem.
  5. 5. A model that shows many connected food chains in an ecosystem.
  6. 7. An organism that eats decaying plants, animals, and waste.
  7. 10. A community of living and non-living things that interact.
  8. 11. An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.
  9. 12. An animal that hunts and eats other animals.
  10. 15. Non-living parts of an ecosystem, such as water, air, and sunlight.
  11. 16. An organism that provides food or shelter for a parasite.
  12. 20. An organism that feeds on dead animals.