Across
- 2. The place in an ecosystem where an organism lives.
- 4. Single-celled organisms lives on the roots of plants changing nitrogen gas into a form plants can use.
- 9. Living things in an ecosystem, like plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria
- 12. Animals that eat both plants and animals.
- 14. Organisms introduced to a new ecosystem that cause harm
- 15. Animals that eat other animals.
- 16. Animals that eat plants only.
- 17. A thick layer of hot, semi-solid rock that surrounds the core
- 18. The layer of gases that surrounds Earth
- 20. Unlike plants, They can't make their own food but they get it by breaking down dead matter.
- 21. Plants grow without soil, receiving nutrients directly from water.
- 24. An organism that is hunted by a predator.
Down
- 1. Nonliving things in an ecosystem, like air, water, soil, rocks, and light.
- 3. Soil decomposers, breaking down organic matter and enriching the soil.
- 5. Plants are the only ------------because they make their own food
- 6. The linear path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem
- 7. organism that hunt for their food
- 8. Animals are --------------because they need food from others.
- 10. Made of super-hot iron and nickel.
- 11. It’s all Earth’s Living Things
- 13. The special role an organism plays in the ecosystem.
- 19. Made up of all living and nonliving things.
- 20. Express how multiple food chains in an ecosystem are linked together.
- 21. It’s all the Earth’s Liquid and Solid Water.
- 22. Nature's recyclers that break down dead plants and animals, turning them into simpler substances.
- 23. Thin outer layer of the Earth, made of solid rock
