Across
- 5. A living thing that eats other living things to survive.
- 6. Animals that eat meat.
- 9. Animals that eat plants. Also called primary consumers.
- 10. An interacting group of living organisms in an area.
- 12. Animals that eat both animals and plants.
- 13. An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.
Down
- 1. An animal at the top of the food web.
- 2. An organism that breaks down organic matter. What they leave behind is used by primary producers.
- 3. An organism that makes its own food from light energy or chemical energy without eating.
- 4. The position of an organism in the food chain.
- 7. An organism that feeds on detritus, dead, and decomposing organisms. What they leave behind is used by decomposers.
- 8. Another term for an organism that makes its own food from light energy.
- 11. A sequence of who eats whom in a biological community.