Ecosystems

2. only eat plants
3. show the direction of energy flowing through the food chain
5. process that plants use to turn light energy into chemical energy
8. linear representation that shows the flow of energy from the sun to a producer, to a series of consumers, and to decomposers (this word includes a hyphen (-) in the middle where there should be a space)
9. when competing forces within a system are in balance
11. eat both plants and meat
13. only eat meat
14. get less water than forests, making the soil more fertile
15. to organize by certain characteristics in order to make groups of similar things
16. organisms that eat other organisms for energy

1. organisms that break down dead organisms and their wastes into small and simpler forms of matter
3. non-living
4. ecosystems that are land based and include forests
6. animals that feed on dead or decaying animals and plants
7. varies based on where the forest is located on Earth
8. non-linear representation that shows the flow between many organisms of the same ecosystem (this word includes a hyphen (-) in the middle where there should be a space)
10. living
12. organisms that produce their own energy from sunlight