Across
- 5. an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources
- 8. An autotroph or primary producer is an organism that produces complex organic compounds
- 10. natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community
- 12. graphical representation designed to show the biomass or bioproductivity at each trophic level
- 13. only eats plants
- 14. organisms that need to eat (i.e. consume) food to obtain their energy
- 15. eats plants and meat
Down
- 1. non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems
- 2. the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
- 3. only eats meat
- 4. organism at feeds on nonliving organic matter
- 6. living thing that has an organized structure
- 7. any living component that affects another organism or shapes the ecosystem
- 9. network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms and ending
- 11. organisms that make their own food
