Crossword Puzzle - Brady Voss

1. An extremely cold, dry biome.
5. An organism that makes its own food.
6. Consumers that only eat plants.
8. A tree that produces its seeds in cones and that has needle-shaped leaves.
10. A leafy roof formed by tall trees in a forest.
11. A layer of shorter plants that grow in the shade of a forest canopy.
14. A tree that sheds its leaves and grows new ones each year.
15. An area populated by grasses and other nonwoody plants. Get 25 to 75 centimeters of rain each year.
17. Consists of the many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
19. Consumers that eat both plants and animals.

2. An area that receives less than 25 centimeters of precipitation a year.
3. Consumers that eat only animals.
4. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
7. Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
8. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.
9. Break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem.
12. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
13. Soil that is frozen all year.
16. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
18. A grassland close to the equator that receives as much as 120 centimeters of rain per year.