Ecology Review

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Across
  1. 2. The base of a food web, typically plants
  2. 4. Only _____% of energy is passed up to the next step in a food chain
  3. 6. Breaks down dead matter (AKA decomposers)
  4. 7. Eats plants and animals
  5. 10. ______ levels are steps in a food chain
  6. 12. This process uses sunlight to make glucose
  7. 13. ______ consumers just eat plants
  8. 16. Capture energy from the sun
  9. 17. At every step of a food chain, energy is lost as _____
  10. 18. Food _______ contains many food chains, showing interactions
Down
  1. 1. Gain energy by consuming other organisms
  2. 3. Only eats plants
  3. 5. _____ consumers eat animals that eat plants
  4. 8. Energy ______ model the amount of energy at each level of a food chain
  5. 9. Arrows in a food chain show the direction that _____ moves.
  6. 11. Only eats meat
  7. 14. Food _______ shows how energy moves in an ecosystem
  8. 15. A measure (unit) of energy