CFU/Day 2: Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
  2. 5. an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
  3. 8. an animal that feeds on plants.
  4. 9. organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material.
  5. 10. organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
  6. 12. an animal that feeds on flesh.
  7. 13. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
  8. 14. any kind of green plant
  9. 15. living organism that shapes its environment.
Down
  1. 1. organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
  2. 3. autotrophs (producers) or other consumers for food, nutrition, and energy.
  3. 4. soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
  4. 6. organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
  5. 7. the role an organism plays in a community
  6. 11. non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment