Topic 8 and 9 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. when two or more organisms need the same limited resources to survive
  2. 6. an organism that breaks down the bodies of dead organisms
  3. 9. the chemical processes animals use to break down or build molecules
  4. 10. an organism that needs to eat other organisms to survive
  5. 13. a series of changes in a community of an ecosystem
  6. 14. living parts of an ecosystem
  7. 17. an animal that uses energy from their body to keep their body at a steady temperature
  8. 18. an animal that eats only other animals, or products of other animals
  9. 19. all organisms living in an ecosystem
  10. 20. an organism that is too small to see
Down
  1. 1. an animal that eats both plants and other animals
  2. 2. the green substance in plant cells that absorbs light energy and helps the plant perform photosynthesis
  3. 3. a model of the transfer of energy within a set of interconnected food chains
  4. 4. an animal that eats other plants
  5. 7. the living things and nonliving things in an area
  6. 8. the process that plants use to make glucose using carbon dioxide, light, and water and producing oxygen
  7. 11. a model that shows how matter and energy flow from one organism to another
  8. 12. nonliving parts of an ecosystem
  9. 15. an animal that depends on its environment to warm its body
  10. 16. an organism that can make its own nutrients, usually with energy from the sun
  11. 18. a series of events or processes that repeats over and over