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Across
  1. 1. life
  2. 4. describes the role an organism plays in a community
  3. 7. an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
  4. 9. animals with wide food preferences, can eat both plant and animal matter
  5. 12. an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material
  6. 13. plants that make their own food through sunlight, air, and water
  7. 14. the area and resources used by a particular species (the habitat of a species) or an assemblage of animals and plants together with their abiotic environment
Down
  1. 2. animals whose diet consists of other animals
  2. 3. an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuses
  3. 5. is a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
  4. 6. organism on the food chain that depends on autotrophs
  5. 7. nonliving factors in an environment
  6. 8. an animal that feeds on plants
  7. 10. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
  8. 11. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.