Ecosystems

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Across
  1. 2. the predator at the top of the energy pyramid, whose only natural predator is humans
  2. 3. this includes worms or bacteria that break down every organism once they die
  3. 5. the consumer that is an herbivore, and eats the producer (a grasshopper, for example)
  4. 7. a factor in the environment that is not living
  5. 10. this is an organism that only/mostly eats meat
  6. 11. this is where the producers get their energy from
  7. 12. these are organisms that eat other ones (not producers, the other word)
  8. 13. about 10% of this is lost with every trophic level you go up in the energy pyramid
Down
  1. 1. this is an organism that only eats plants
  2. 4. this is an organism that eats plants and animals
  3. 6. followed by the word 'capacity,' this is the max population an environment can sustain
  4. 8. a factor in the environment that is living
  5. 9. this is a type of factors that limits an organism's survival in their environment
  6. 11. the consumer that is an omnivore, and eats the primary consumer (a mouse, for example)