Food Chains and Food Webs Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle Activity

This crossword puzzle is an awesome way to reinforce food chains and food webs vocabulary! You can use this as a review activity, homework assignment, or even a fun activity in your classroom!

Includes:
- 1 crossword puzzle
- 1 crossword puzzle with word bank
- answer key

Vocabulary terms included:
- consumer
- producer
- carnivore
- decay
- decomposer
- food chain
- food web
- herbivore
- omnivore
- photosynthesis
- predator
- prey
- scavenger

This vocabulary activity covers Georgia Performance Standards:

S4L1. Students will describe the roles of organisms and the flow of energy within an ecosystem.
a. Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in a community.
b. Demonstrate the flow of energy through a food web/food chain beginning with sunlight and including producers, consumers, and decomposers.
c. Predict how changes in the environment would affect a community (ecosystem) of
organisms.
d. Predict effects on a population if some of the plants or animals in the community are scarce or if there are too many.

S4L2. Students will identify factors that affect the survival or extinction of organisms such as adaptation, variation of behaviors (hibernation), and external features (camouflage and protection).
a. Identify external features of organisms that allow them to survive or reproduce better than organisms that do not have these features (for example: camouflage, use of hibernation, protection, etc.).
b. Identify factors that may have led to the extinction of some organisms.

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