Food Webs

Across 2. A __________ consumer eats herbivores. 5. A __________ hunts other animals for food. Examples: lions, wolves, snakes, and sharks. 6. An __________ is an animal that feed on both plants and animals. Examples: humans and bears. 9. A __________ breaks down the remains of dead animals and plants. Examples: fungi, bacteria, and worms. 11. A __________ is an organism that obtains nutrients from other organisms. 13. A __________ consumer eats plants. 14. A __________ feeds only on plants. Examples: rabbits, cattle, horses, sheep and deer. 15. A __________ is an organism that cannot synthesize its own food and has to hunt or forage for food. 17. An __________ consists of the living and non-living things that interact and share an environment. 18. __________ are hunted by predators. Down 1. A __________ is an animal that feeds on other animals. Examples: lions, hawks, and wolves. 3. An __________ is an organism that makes its own food from inorganic substances. 4. __________ is the process by which organic compunds are synthesized from inorganic carbon, in the presence of light or solar energy. 7. A __________ consumer eats secondary consumers. 8. A food __________ is a series of organisms interrelated by their feeding habits. 10. The __________ is the source of energy for all plants. 12. A __________ is an organism, like a green plant, that produce organic compounds from inorganic compounds. 16. A food __________ consists of all of the interrelated food chains in an ecological community.

Food Webs list autotroph carnivore chain consumer decomposer ecosystem herbivore heterotroph omnivore photosynthesis predator prey primary producer secondary sun tertiary web