Across
- 6. the passage of energy through the components of an ecosystem
- 7. consumer that eats both plants and meat
- 8. a community of living organisms
- 9. all the food chains of an ecosystem put together
- 10. the cell walls of plant material
- 11. animals that consume and break down dead organic material and excrete nutrients back into the ecosystem
- 12. eats primary consumers
- 14. what makes matter move or change
- 15. an organism that produces its own nutrients from inorganic substances
- 17. organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter
- 19. of biomass total amount of living material available at each trophic level
Down
- 1. carnivores that eats carnivores
- 2. consumer that only eats meat
- 3. a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its environment compared to its relative abundance
- 4. the order of organisms that eat, or are eaten by other animals
- 5. An animal that eats only plants
- 8. a diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy of matter contained within each trophic level in a food chain or food web
- 13. diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves through food chain
- 16. an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
- 18. anything that has mass and takes up space
