CFU/Day 2: Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 6. are organisms that create their own food using sunlight
  2. 7. an organism that regularly consumes a variety of material, including plants, animals, algae, and fungi
  3. 8. the specific role and position an organism occupies in its ecosystem
  4. 9. the natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism
  5. 13. an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly matter from other organisms
  6. 14. an organism that cannot produce its own energy and must obtain it by eating or absorbing nutrients from other organisms
  7. 15. anything that is currently alive, was once alive, or is a product/waste of a living organism
Down
  1. 1. an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material
  2. 2. any organism that breaks down or eats decaying material for its energy source
  3. 3. Arrows in a food web point from the organism being eaten prey to the organism that eats it predator, showing the direction of energy flow
  4. 4. an organism that eats meat, or the flesh of other animals.
  5. 5. showing "who eats whom" using arrows to indicate energy transfer
  6. 10. an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
  7. 11. an organism that feeds mostly on plants
  8. 12. sunlight, water, temperature, soil, and pH level