Across
- 4. animals that hunt and kill other animals for food
- 5. organisms that breaks down dead plant or animal matter
- 9. a large area with similar weather, patterns, plant life, animal, and etc
- 11. animals that serves as a food source for another animal
- 12. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organisms
- 13. a non-living thing
- 14. the transfer of energy from one place or system to another
Down
- 1. animals that feed on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse
- 2. the function of jobs an organism performs in its habitat
- 3. organisms that can make their own food in an ecosystem
- 6. organisms that consume other organisms to obtain their energy
- 7. a series of organisms that eat on another so that energy and nutrients flow from one to the next
- 8. any step in a nutritive series, or food chain, for an ecosystem. Organisms are classified into levels.
- 9. a living thing
- 10. a community of living organisms