Across
- 4. Organisms (like fungi and bacteria) that break down dead matter and recycle nutrients.
- 6. Nonliving things in an environment (sunlight, water, soil, temperature).
- 8. Web A complex network of many food chains in an ecosystem.
- 9. The natural place where an organism lives.
- 10. Consumers that eat only animals.
- 13. Organisms that must eat other organisms for energy (another word for consumers).
- 14. Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
Down
- 1. Organisms (like plants) that make their own food through photosynthesis.
- 2. The role or job an organism has in its environment.
- 3. Organisms that make their own food (another word for producers).
- 5. Chain A simple path showing how energy moves from one organism to another.
- 7. Living things in an environment (plants, animals, bacteria).
- 11. Consumers that eat only plants.
- 12. Organisms that cannot make their own food and must eat other organisms.