Across
- 4. plants that make their own food and are a source of food to animal species
- 7. the role played by a species in the community it inhabits: where it lives, what it eats, what preys on it, what it does, and what it needs.
- 9. organisms that eat both plants and animals.
- 11. organisms that help enrich soil by breaking down the remains of dead and decaying plants and animals.
- 13. any living thing on the planet.
- 14. a single cell organism made up of plant or plant like organisms.
- 15. the environment or home of an organism
Down
- 1. organisms that eat only plants. these include small and large mammals,insects, and sea creatures.
- 2. a diagram that links organisms to all their varied food sources in a community and shows the flow of energy.
- 3. creatures that mostly eat meat.
- 5. an organism that eats plants, or eats other animals that eat plants.
- 6. a linear sequence showing one organism being eaten by another.
- 8. all the populations of living and nonliving things– water, rocks, and soil– that interact with one another in a certain place.
- 10. all the different populations of plants and animals living together in the same place.
- 12. a group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place. A school of fish, a herd of cattle, and a flock of geese are all examples of a population.