Ecosystems

3. This helps animals stay alive during winter when food is hard to find.
5. Green plants; Ones that use the sun’s energy to make (produce) their own food through photosynthesis
8. the food ______ shows how all of the different food chains in a community are linked together
9. The hunted animal
11. These provide nutrients for the soil.
15. A living thing that breaks down dead plants and animal materials in order to get food energy
16. Group of living things, both plants and animals, in one area
18. Any living thing
19. Food chains start when plants get energy from the _____ to make their own food.

1. An animal that hunts other living animals for food
2. The order in which plants and animals feed on the one below it is called the food ________.
4. When you decrease a predator from a food chain, the prey will ___________.
6. A group of the same species (kind) living in the same place at the same time
7. Decomposers break down ______ plants and animals.
10. A certain area that includes all the plants, animals, and non-living natural things, such as sand, rocks, and soil
12. The surroundings that influence your life
13. Frogs eat _______ to get energy.
14. In food chains, green ________ are the producers.
17. Living things that eat (consume) other living things