1. The document is a word search puzzle containing terms related to ecology and food webs. 2. The terms include different types of animals defined by their eating habits such as herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, predators, prey, filter feeders and insectivores. 3. The puzzle also includes ecological concepts like food chains, food webs, and the roles that plants, sunlight and plankton play in energy transfer between organisms.

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1. An animal that eats other
animals.
19 20 3. Plants need this to
produce their own food and
energy.
21 4. Mice should beware of
this predatory bird at night.
6. This carnivorous fish
Across lives in the Amazon.
2. This monster shark is not dangerous 13. This omnivore eats berries in summer and 7. An animal that lives in
to people because it's a filter feeder. salmon in the fall. another plant or animal and
It’s the biggest fish in the sea! eats that plant or animals
16. A desert scavenger that can often be seen
5. This predator hunts zebras and flying above dead animals. without killing it.
antelope. 9. This insectivore has a
17. This is the largest animal in the world and
7. These are often at the bottom of food it is a filter feeder. long tongue and nose,
chains. which it uses to lick up
19. An animal that is hunted by other ants.
8. An animal that eats both plants and animals.
animals. 10. Many food chains
20. This insect spreads parasites when it linked together.
10. Zebra eats grass. Lion eats zebra. drinks the blood of animals.
What is this an example of? 12. An animal that finds
21. An animal that eats plants. already dead animals to
11. An animal that eats only insects. eat.
Whale shark, sunlight, Lion, piranha, omnivore, owl, plant, food chain, food web, 14. An animal that hunts
insectivore, bleu whale, scavenger, prey, herbivore, predator, energy, plankton, other animals.
mosquito, vulture, carnivore, anteater
15. Many filter feeders in
the ocean eat this.
18. Animals get this from
eating other animals.