Feeding Relationships

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 6. The defensive football players who line up behind the linemen (9)
  2. 8. A series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market (plural) (8)
  3. 10. Someone who manufactures something (plural) (9)
  4. 11. The taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools (5)
  5. 12. How plants make food from sunlight (14)
  6. 14. One of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing (7)
  7. 15. Plant materials and animal waste used as fuel (7)

Down

  1. 1. Any animal that lives by preying on other animals (plural) (9)
  2. 2. Tiny single-celled living things, some of which cause illness (8)
  3. 3. A short performance that is part of a longer program (plural) (7)
  4. 4. Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants (plural) (10)
  5. 5. A minute life form (plural) (8)
  6. 7. A person who uses goods or services (plural) (9)
  7. 8. Animal hunted or caught for food (4)
  8. 9. Any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific (plural) (7)
  9. 13. From 63 million to 2 million years ago (8)