Gr. 9 Ecology Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Producers who make energy using photosynthesis
  2. 4. Living thing who uses dead things for food
  3. 5. A herbivore whose diet consists of bamboo
  4. 6. Type of decomposer
  5. 9. Animals who eat dead or rotting flesh
  6. 10. An animal who eats other animals
  7. 12. Food ___ is the path of transferred energy
  8. 13. An animal who eats both plants and animals
  9. 15. A living thing who eats other living things
  10. 16. Living things need this to live and grow
  11. 17. The animal who is hunted by other animals
Down
  1. 1. Plants are ____
  2. 2. An animal who hunts other animals for food
  3. 3. Supplies energy taken in by plants
  4. 5. A living thing who makes their own food
  5. 7. Animals that only eat plants
  6. 8. Food __ shows many food chains in an ecosystem
  7. 11. Animals are ____
  8. 12. Dead/rotting flesh eaten as food
  9. 14. A herbivore who eats grass and provides milk