Food chain and food web crossword puzzles on predators, prey, herbivores, and energy flow.
Crossword clues used in food chains puzzles, with answers and links to play.
“Organism that gets energy by eating other organisms”
CONSUMER (8)
“Community of organisms interacting with their physical environment”
ECOSYSTEM (9)
“Process organisms use to release energy from food”
RESPIRATION (11)
“Struggle between organisms for the same limited resources”
COMPETITION (11)
“Describes a consumer that eats plant-eating animals”
SECONDARY (9)
“Substance organisms absorb from food or soil to grow”
NUTRIENT (8)
“Relating to a feeding level within a food chain”
TROPHIC (7)
“Total mass of living organisms in a given area”
BIOMASS (7)
“Organism that feeds on dead organic matter and waste”
DETRITIVORE (11)
“Describes a predator with no natural enemies”
APEX (4)
“Meat-eating animal in a food chain”
CARNIVORE (9)
“Describes a consumer that eats only plants”
PRIMARY (7)
“Describes a consumer that eats other meat-eating animals”
TERTIARY (8)
“Nutrients living things need to survive and grow”
FOOD (4)
“Original source of energy for nearly all food chains”
SUN (3)
“Organism, like a plant, that makes its own energy from sunlight”
PRODUCER (8)
“Common plant that many grazing animals eat”
GRASS (5)
“Animal that hunts other animals for food”
PREDATOR (8)
“Animal that eats both plants and other animals”
OMNIVORE (8)
“Organism that must eat other living things for energy”
CONSUMER (8)
“Plant-eating animal often hunted by wolves”
DEER (4)
“Organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into nutrients”
DECOMPOSER (10)
“Power that flows from one living thing to the next”
ENERGY (6)
“Living thing that starts most food chains by using sunlight”
PLANT (5)