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Food chain and food web crossword puzzles on predators, prey, herbivores, and energy flow.

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Food Chains

Medium · 15×15 · 13 words
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  1. 1. Total mass of living organisms in a given area
  2. 4. Organism that gets energy by eating other organisms
  3. 9. Process organisms use to release energy from food
  4. 11. Relating to a feeding level within a food chain
  5. 12. Describes a consumer that eats only plants
  6. 13. Describes a predator with no natural enemies

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  1. 2. Describes a consumer that eats plant-eating animals
  2. 3. Meat-eating animal in a food chain
  3. 5. Organism that feeds on dead organic matter and waste
  4. 6. Struggle between organisms for the same limited resources
  5. 7. Substance organisms absorb from food or soil to grow
  6. 8. Community of organisms interacting with their physical environment
  7. 10. Describes a consumer that eats other meat-eating animals

Food Chains

Easy · 11×11 · 11 words
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  1. 3. Animal that hunts other animals for food
  2. 8. Organism that must eat other living things for energy
  3. 9. Original source of energy for nearly all food chains
  4. 10. Plant-eating animal often hunted by wolves
  5. 11. Power that flows from one living thing to the next

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  1. 1. Organism, like a plant, that makes its own energy from sunlight
  2. 2. Nutrients living things need to survive and grow
  3. 4. Organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into nutrients
  4. 5. Animal that eats both plants and other animals
  5. 6. Common plant that many grazing animals eat
  6. 7. Living thing that starts most food chains by using sunlight
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