Down
1. | A living thing that feeds on and breaks down dead things or wastes for food. |
2. | The animal that is hunted or eaten by other animals. |
3. | A food ____ groups all of the different food chains and how they interact in an ecosystem. |
4. | This supplies the energy that is taken in by plants. |
5. | A herbivore that eats grass and gives us milk. |
6. | An animal that eats both plants and animals. |
7. | A living thing that eats other living things as food. |
8. | Living things that are producers. They produce food through photosynthesis. |
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Across
7. | Dead or rotting animal flesh that is eaten as food by animals like vultures. |
8. | A herbivore whose diet consists almost exclusively of bamboo. |
10. | An animal that eats other animals. |
11. | A type of decomposer. |
12. | Living things need this to live and to grow. |
13. | A food ____ is the path of the transfer of food energy from one living thing to another. |
14. | A living thing that makes its own food. |
15. | An animal that hunts another animal for food. |
17. | Animals that only eat plants. |
18. | Animals that eat dead or rotting animal flesh. |
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