Across
- 4. any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers,secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers
- 6. a diagram that shows many overlapping food chains
- 7. A green pigment (in all green plants) that is responsible for the absorption of light to
- 10. the process of enzymes within the body breaking down food into smaller molecules the body can use
- 14. the presence of sunlight) to produce glucose and oxygen
- 16. an organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms
- 17. all of the living and nonliving things that interact within an area
- 20. the process of physically breaking food into smaller pieces (i.e. chewing)
- 21. a diagram that shows the amount of energy moving from one feeding level to another
- 22. energy given off during a transformation (i.e. heat)
- 23. an organism that is able to produce its own food through the process of photosynthesis or chemosynthesis
- 24. the process by which green plants and some other organisms use water and carbon
- 25. to change from one form to another
- 26. into another
- 28. a series of events in which one organism eats another in order to gain energy
- 30. anything that has mass and takes up space
- 31. the movement of energy through a food chain in an ecosystem
Down
- 1. Energy stored in the bonds of molecules
- 2. two or more atoms joined together chemically
- 3. the type of change in which the form of matter is altered, but one substance is not
- 5. a substance that consists of 2 or more elements combined in a set ratio
- 8. energy of light
- 9. breaks down food into tiny molecules to allow the body to absorb nutrients
- 11. the type of change that results in the formation of new chemical substances
- 12. a simple sugar which is an important energy source in living organisms
- 13. energy for photosynthesis
- 15. an organism that must consume other organisms in order to obtain energy
- 18. contains chlorophyll and makes food from sunlight (plant cell only)
- 19. the role that an animal or plant species plays with in the environment
- 27. an organism that obtains energy from the Sun through the process of photosynthesis
- 29. an organism that gains energy by feeding on other organisms
