Across
- 2. an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
- 4. living organisms involving the production of energy, typically with the intake of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide
- 6. a green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis
- 8. an animal or person that only eats food of animal origin
- 10. an animal or person that only eats food of plant origin
- 13. plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water
Down
- 1. an organelle found in large numbers in most cells, in which the biochemical processes of respiration and energy production occur
- 3. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
- 5. consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem
- 7. an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin
- 9. a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place
- 11. group of organisms linked in order of the food they eat, from producers to consumers, and from prey, predators, scavengers, and decomposers
- 12. the source of energy for use and storage at the cellular level