Across
- 3. anything nonliving,never was alive
- 6. an organism that gets its food from decaying material - ex. dead animals, waste material, leaves, etc
- 8. connected series of food chains in an ecosystem
- 10. plant/meat eater
- 12. any organism that makes its own food, gets its energy from the sun
- 13. feeding system in a ecosystem, how organisms get their energy
- 14. meat eater
- 15. an organism that gets its food from already dead animals
Down
- 1. plant eater
- 2. carnivore, second consumer after herbivores
- 4. the hunter
- 5. the hunted
- 7. any organism that gets its food by feeding on other organisms
- 9. either a carnivore, or omnivore, third level consumer in a food chain or web
- 11. all the living and non living factors in an environment that interact
- 12. herbivore, first consumer after producers in a food chain or web
