Ecology vocabulary crossward

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Across
  1. 2. an organism that eats plants and animals
  2. 3. where a species of organism lives or thrives.
  3. 7. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
  4. 11. the sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism.
  5. 12. an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.
  6. 14. an organism that mostly feeds on plants.
  7. 15. An organism, often a bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem.
Down
  1. 1. consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem
  2. 4. a living organism that shapes its environment.
  3. 5. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
  4. 6. organisms that consume other organisms to obtain their energy.
  5. 8. organisms that can make their own food in an ecosystem and are also known as autotrophs.
  6. 9. an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material.
  7. 10. an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals.
  8. 13. the role an organism plays in a community.