Across
- 5. fertilizer made by piling together dead plant and animal matter (leaves, food scraps) and letting it break down
- 7. eating everything
- 10. a group of worms that have round bodies which are divided into rings called segments
- 12. nutrients in the ground 🡪 plants use the nutrients to grow 🡪 herbivores eat the plants 🡪 carnivores eat the herbivores 🡪 carnivores die 🡪 saprophytes eat the dead animal and return nutrients back into the ground
- 13. something that has lots of plant nutrients
- 14. a group of rotters that are like mushrooms or mold
- 15. things in food that living things need to live and grow
Down
- 1. plants 🡪 herbivore 🡪 carnivore
- 2. dark-red colored earthworms that are red because they have red material in their blood called hemoglobin
- 3. eating meat
- 4. tiny living things that live and grow by eating dead and rotting plants and animals (bacteria, mold, mushrooms, earthworms)
- 6. Anything an animal or person eats or drinks that helps them grow and live
- 8. microscopic living things like bacteria
- 9. eating only plants
- 11. a special kind of bacteria that live in the soil and help finish rotting things
