Across
- 4. Consumer - Organisms that eat other organisms (meat eaters) Carnivores are an example
- 5. Energy - Energy from the sun
- 8. - Green plants that produce new food (sugar) through photosynthesis
- 9. Energy - Energy from the sugars and starches made by plant leaves during photosynthesis
- 13. Succession - Also called Ecological succession: The change that occurs as one kind of living organism replaces another in an environment
- 14. - Living organisms
- 15. - Break the organic materials back down into their constituents for reuse in the ecosystem.
Down
- 1. Energy - Energy created in the form of heat when coal, crude oil, or other fuels are burned
- 2. Consumer - Organisms that eat plants. Herbivores are an example
- 3. Energy - Energy converted from thermal energy that uses kinetic energy to drive generators or other equipment
- 6. - Take the primary source of food, incorporate other chemicals and energy forms, and change it into more complex organic compounds,foods, and tissue.
- 7. - Plant eating organisms
- 10. - Non-living things
- 11. Community - The plants that occupy an environment when the succession of species is complete & plant populations become stable.
- 12. Energy - Energy associated with motion and movement