Across
- 2. consumers that eat both plants and meat
- 4. organisms that break down dead organisms and put nutrients back into the soil
- 6. when water is evaporated from plants
- 7. process of creating a new ecosystem after a natural disaster (forest fire, flood, etc.)
- 9. consumers that only eat meat
- 12. the non living parts of an ecosystem
- 15. organisms that eat producers (typically are herbivores)
- 16. organisms that eat herbivores
- 17. organisms that are at the top of the food chain and have little or no predators in an ecosystem
- 18. organisms that are the first to arrive during primary succession (lichens, moss, etc.)
- 19. renewable organic matter from plants and animals
- 20. process in which clouds are formed
- 21. organisms that don not need to consume other organisms for energy
Down
- 1. process in which the sun heats up water and turns it into water vapor
- 3. consumers that only eat plants
- 5. organisms that can not make their own food
- 8. organisms that eat other organisms for energy
- 10. community of organisms working together for survival
- 11. the living parts of an ecosystem
- 13. organisms that make their own food
- 14. process in which clouds release water in the form of rain, sleet, hail, or snow
