Across
- 5. the way that food energy passes from one organism to another
- 7. a consumer that eats only plants
- 11. all the things that surround an organism
- 12. a living thing that feeds on and breaks down the dead bodies of other living things
- 13. a carnivore that eats meat it finds; scavengers do not kill their food
- 14. a consumer that eats both meat and plants
- 15. a living thing
Down
- 1. many interrelated food chains in an ecosystem
- 2. how plants make food for themselves from water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight
- 3. is a consumer that eats only meat (animals)
- 4. an organism that makes its own food
- 6. the place where an organism lives
- 8. an organism that is captured and eaten by another organism
- 9. an organism that cannot make its own food; it must eat food
- 10. an organism that captures and eats other organisms
