Across
- 2. Organisms that cannot produce their own food and have to eat/consume other organisms for energy
- 4. Organisms that are at the top of a food chain and lack natural predators
- 5. Organisms that eat secondary consumers
- 6. Break down the complex compounds of dead and decaying plants and animals into simpler molecules that can be more easily absorbed/recycled
- 9. Feed on the organic waste of dead plants and animals
- 13. A model that scientists use to show how energy moves through an ecosystem
- 14. Organisms that eat the meat and flesh of animals
- 15. The position of an organism in the food chain
- 16. A graphical representation, showing the flow of energy at each trophic level
Down
- 1. All of the food chains in an ecosystem
- 3. Eats animals that have already died
- 7. Organisms that eat a variety of organisms, plants, animals, fungi, etc
- 8. Organisms that eat primary consumers
- 10. An organism that can make its own food
- 11. Organisms that eat producers
- 12. A heterotroph that feeds only on producers