Food chains and food webs (2)

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Across
  1. 1. is eaten by a predator
  2. 2. a level or a position in a food chain, a food web, or an ecological pyramid (two words)
  3. 5. an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy
  4. 6. an animal that eats plants and meat
  5. 8. ___________ feeder, meaning an animal that will adapt its diet to what’s available
  6. 9. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another (two words)
  7. 12. a consumer (carnivore or omnivore)that eats primary consumers
  8. 13. ___________ feeder, meaning an animal that has a very limited diet and habitat
  9. 15. a consumer (carnivore or omnivore)that eats secondary consumers
  10. 17. the source of all the energy in a food web
Down
  1. 1. eats prey
  2. 3. an animal that eats only plants
  3. 4. an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.
  4. 7. consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem and describe the relationships — links or connections — among species in an ecosystem (two words)
  5. 10. a predator at the top of the food chain
  6. 11. a consumer (herbivore or omnivore) that eats producers
  7. 14. an organism that makes its own food
  8. 16. an animal that eats only meat