Food Web Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. An organism that eats dead and decaying matter.​​ Recycles nutrients back into ecosystem.
  2. 7. The green pigment contained in the chloroplast of plant leaves that captures the energy in sunlight.
  3. 9. Energy stored in food (glucose).
  4. 10. An organism on the food chain that depends on autotrophs (producers) or other consumers for food, nutrition, and energy.
  5. 11. An organism that only eats meat (Other animals)
  6. 12. Energy from the sun that reaches Earth. Powers photosynthesis.
  7. 13. An organism that only eats plants.
  8. 15. What is produced after a chemical reaction. Photosynthesis produces oxygen and glucose.
  9. 17. A chemical reaction where plants convert radiant energy to chemical energy.
  10. 18. An organism that creates its own food. (Plants)
  11. 20. Energy that is transformed from one form to another.
  12. 23. The pores of a plant that lets in carbon dioxide, and releases oxygen and water vapor
  13. 24. A community of interacting organisms and their environment. Includes non-living things like soil, and water.
  14. 25. Heat energy released from organisms.
  15. 26. The level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web.
Down
  1. 1. A linear sequence of organisms where nutrients and energy is transferred from one organism to the other.
  2. 2. Process where two or more substances combine are chemically changed, producing different substances.
  3. 4. Plants that make their own food through sunlight, air, and water.
  4. 5. A Role an organism or population plays within an ecosystem
  5. 6. A simple carbohydrate (sugar or glucose) produced by photosynthesis. Glucose stores chemical energy.
  6. 8. Water moving through plants and evaporating from the leaves (stomata)into the air.
  7. 14. An organism that eats BOTH plants and animals.
  8. 16. A cell organelle only found in plants. It is responsible for photosynthesis in a plant.
  9. 19. An organism that needs to eat other organisms for energy.
  10. 21. Interconnected food chains that show the relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
  11. 22. Substances that undergo a chemical change. In photosynthesis, water and CO2 change into glucose and O2.