Across
- 4. an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material.
- 8. any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support
- 10. Species causing extinctions of native plants and animals, reducing biodiversity, competing with native organisms for limited resources, and altering habitats
- 12. an organism that creates its own
- 13. A non- living part of an ecosystem
- 15. Consumer animals that consume other animals to obtain nutrition from them. Most importantly, they are at the highest level of the food chain.
- 17. an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
Down
- 1. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
- 2. an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals
- 3. organism that mostly feeds on plants.
- 5. web An energy flow from primary producers to primary consumers (herbivores), and from primary consumers to secondary consumers (carnivores).
- 6. living things within an ecosystem
- 7. Consumer organisms, primarily animals, which eat primary consumers
- 9. an animal that lives by killing and eating other animals
- 11. An organism, often a bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem.
- 14. Consumer animals that eat plants
- 16. pyramided It Shows the flow of energy from one trophic, or feeding, level to the next in an ecosystem.
