Food chains and food webs crossword · Grade 5

The crossword clues

Directions: Read each clue and write the answer in the grid, one letter in each box.

• Across
• 1 Mushrooms and molds; they help rot dead things away (5)
• 3 Breaks down dead plants and animals and returns nutrients to soil (10)
• 4 Animal that hunts other animals for food (8)
• 6 Living thing that gets energy by eating other living things (8)
• 8 Animal that eats dead animals it did not kill, like a vulture (9)
• 9 Animal that eats only plants (9)
• Down
• 1 Many food chains linked together in one place (4, 3)
• 2 Animal that is hunted and eaten by another (4)
• 4 Living thing, such as a plant, that makes its own food (8)
• 5 Animal that eats both plants and animals (8)
• 7 Every living thing needs this to move, grow and stay alive (6)