Across
- 3. a process by which plants and algae use sunlight to make their own food
- 6. in a trophic pyramid what is the location of the producer?
- 7. interconnected food chains (two words)
- 8. the amount of energy transferred from one level to the next
- 11. plant or plant-like organisms that drift with the ocean currents
- 12. bottom dwelling organisms
- 15. animal or animal-like organisms that drift with the ocean currents
- 16. the arrow in a food chain or food web faces this organism
- 17. a gas produced by plants
- 18. an animal that eats both plants and animals
- 20. an organism who converts organic matter to inorganic matter
- 23. an organism that produces its own food
- 24. an animal that eats meat
Down
- 1. also called the consumer
- 2. an organism that does the hunting
- 4. also called a decomposer
- 5. the ultimate source of energy that drives a food chain
- 7. a linear sequence that shows the transfer of energy from one organism to the next (two words)
- 9. free swimming organisms
- 10. microscopic organisms that drift with the ocean currents
- 13. an animal that eats plants
- 14. an organism that must get its food by eating other organisms
- 19. as you proceed up a trophic pyramid the energy...
- 21. an organism that is hunted
- 22. also called the producer