Ecology Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. all of the food chains in an ecosystem.
  2. 10. an organism that eats plants and animals
  3. 12. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
  4. 13. an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
  5. 14. an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material
  6. 15. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
Down
  1. 1. an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals
  2. 2. a living organism that shapes its environment.
  3. 3. an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy
  4. 4. organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms
  5. 6. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another
  6. 7. an organism that mostly feeds on plants
  7. 8. the role an organism plays in a community
  8. 9. a place where an organism makes its home
  9. 11. an organism that creates its own food or energy