Across
- 2. a complicated, interconnected group of food chains
- 3. lives in or on another living thing
- 6. eats prey; a hunter
- 7. eaten by a predator; the hunted
- 8. the ultimate source of all energy on earth
- 10. a specific level in an ecosystem based on the organism’s source of energy
- 12. breaks down dead organic matter
- 13. a group of the same species
- 15. nonliving parts of an ecosystem
- 18. can make its own food through photosynthesis
- 19. all of the living organisms in an area
- 20. the role or job of an organism
Down
- 1. another word for "plant"; at the beginning of a food chain
- 4. the living and nonliving parts of an area interacting
- 5. the amount of energy given from one trophic level to the next
- 9. must get energy from eating other organisms
- 11. the process by which producers make their own food
- 14. is negatively impacted by another organism taking advantage of it
- 16. living organisms
- 17. must get energy from eating plants and/ or animals