Feeding Relationships

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms. (8)
  2. 4. Animal hunted or caught for food (4)
  3. 8. A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal (9)
  4. 11. The period of time that it takes for a planet to make a complete revolution around the sun (plural) (5)
  5. 12. The number of inhabitants in a given place (10)
  6. 14. From 63 million to 2 million years ago (8)

Down

  1. 1. A preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen (7)
  2. 2. An organism that makes its own food, usually using sunlight. (8)
  3. 3. A series of things depending on each other as if linked together (5)
  4. 5. Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail (3)
  5. 6. Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants (9)
  6. 7. The defensive football players who line up behind the linemen (9)
  7. 9. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving (3)
  8. 10. Any animal that lives by preying on other animals (8)
  9. 13. A person who eats all kinds of foods (8)
  10. 15. Long-eared animal that hops (6)