Across
- 1. restarts the cycle of succession, but not back to the beginning—soil and nutrients are still present.
- 4. uses the energy from light to carry out various cellular metabolic processes
- 10. a hierarchical level system in an ecosystem showing a flow of energy throughout the levels
- 13. an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources
- 16. an animal that eats both plants and animals
- 17. an organism that is unable to make its own food and gets energy from consuming other organisms
- 18. rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.
- 19. an organism that feeds on dead organic material such as detritus
Down
- 2. largely carnivores that feed on the primary consumers or herbivores. They are heterotrophs, specifically carnivores and omnivores.
- 3. make up the second trophic level. They are also called herbivores. They eat primary producers—plants or algae—and nothing else
- 5. when a new patch of land is created or exposed for the first time
- 6. an organism that produces complex organic compounds using carbon from simple substances such as carbon dioxide, generally using energy from light or inorganic chemical reactions.
- 7. an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
- 8. organisms that obtain energy through chemical process called chemosynthesis rather than by photosynthesis
- 9. those that eats the secondary consumers (large predators). For example, owls that eat snakes.
- 11. An animal that only eats other animals
- 12. an animal that only eats plants
- 14. anything non-loving in an ecosystem
- 15. all of the living things in an ecosystem
- 18. an organism that makes its own food