Across
- 4. an autotroph, uses energy to make food.
- 5. the place where an organism lives within an ecosystem.
- 6. a consumer that only eats plants.
- 10. an organism that gets energy and nutrients by breaking down the remains of other organisms.
- 11. the ability to do work and enables organisms to use matter in life processes.
- 13. the movement of water between the oceans, atmosphere, land, and living things.
- 15. anything that has mass and takes up space.
- 16. the movement of nitrogen between the environment and living things.
Down
- 1. shows the feeding relationships among many different organisms in an ecosystem.
- 2. a consumer that eats other animals.
- 3. a consumer that eats both plants and animals.
- 7. a tool that can be used to trace the flow of energy through an ecosystem.
- 8. an organism that eats other organisms.
- 9. the path of energy transfer from producers to consumers.
- 12. carbon moves through organisms and between organisms and the physical environment.
- 14. a community of living organisms and their nonliving environment.
