Across
- 1. Any nonliving factor in an ecosystem
- 6. This element can be found in the air, fertilizer, water, and is good for plants
- 7. ____ cannot be created or destroyed
- 9. Plants make this to store energy
- 10. An organism that gets energy from the sun
- 12. Different living beings in an ecosystem
- 14. Plants make this and it helps us breathe
- 16. A living thing, like plants, animals, or fungus
- 17. An organism that breaks down dead plants or animals and turns them into soil to get energy.
Down
- 2. Any living factor in an ecosystem
- 3. When the number of one kind of organism gets too high
- 4. An organism that eats to get energy.
- 5. Plants need sunlight, carbon dioxide, and ____ to make energy
- 8. Food chains that overlap because they use some of the same organisms
- 10. The process where plants get energy from the sun
- 11. The arrows in a food web show the direction of ____
- 13. A chain that shows the order animals eat or get energy from each other
- 15. A community of living things and non-living things