how ecosystems work

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Across
  1. 3. / a person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale.
  2. 7. / an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
  3. 9. / is an organism that feeds on plants or other animals for energy.
  4. 10. / a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
Down
  1. 1. / physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms
  2. 2. / from one thing to another
  3. 4. flow / In ecology, energy flow, also called the calorific flow, refers to the flow of energy through a food chain and is the focus of study in ecological energetics.
  4. 5. / the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water
  5. 6. / relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.
  6. 8. / a substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life.