Camryn's Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle - Cruz

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Across
  1. 5. an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.
  2. 6. the role an organism plays in a community.
  3. 9. a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
  4. 10. an organism that decomposes organic material.
  5. 11. a living organism that shapes its environment.
  6. 14. an organism that can make its own food by synthesizing organic nutrients from inorganic materials
  7. 15. any organism that can't make its own food.
Down
  1. 1. a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
  2. 2. an organism that eats plants and animals.
  3. 3. non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms
  4. 4. an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass
  5. 7. an organism that makes its own food
  6. 8. an organism that mostly feeds on plants.
  7. 12. an animal that feeds on flesh.
  8. 13. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.