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Across 4. Vitamins/minerals necessary for life and growth of plants and animals 5. Chipmunk, raccoon, woodpecker 8. Dead once living material lying on the ground or at the bottom of the vernal pool 9. Mushrooms, molds are types of this; cannot make own food 10. Decomposer who creates air tunnels in soil 11. Element recycled back to soil by dead organisms and animal waste 12. Decomposer also known as "pill bugs"

Down 1. Loose material on the Earth's surface in which plants grow 2. Microscopic decomposer 3. A woodpecker is one of these 6. Lives under moist decomposing wood to breathe through its skin 7. Part of soil that is remains of once living plants and animals