Across
- 1. Top predator in a food chain
- 5. Pertaining to feeding levels in an ecosystem
- 8. Meat-eating animal
- 11. Plant-eating animal
- 12. Animal that eats both plants and meat
- 14. Network of interconnected food chains
- 16. Animal that feeds on dead organisms it didn't kill
- 17. Organism that makes its own food via photosynthesis
- 18. Diagram showing energy decrease at each trophic level
- 19. Organism that produces its own food, like a plant
- 20. Natural home of an organism
Down
- 2. First level in a food chain, like producers or herbivores
- 3. Linear sequence of who eats whom in an ecosystem
- 4. Animal that hunts other animals for food
- 6. Total living matter in a given area
- 7. Organism that breaks down dead organic matter
- 8. Organism that eats other organisms for energy
- 9. Animal hunted by predators
- 10. Third level in a food chain, carnivores that eat other carnivores
- 13. Organism that consumes other organisms for food
- 15. Community of organisms and their environment
- 16. Second level in a food chain, carnivores that eat herbivores
