6th Grade Ecosystem Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Information collected from observations or experiments.
  2. 5. An animal that hunts and eats other animals.
  3. 6. When organisms fight for the same resources, like food or space.
  4. 7. How one thing (cause) makes something else happen (effect).
  5. 8. When organisms make more of their own kind.
  6. 9. How living things affect each other and their environment.
  7. 12. Living things in an environment, like plants, animals, and bacteria.
  8. 14. All the living and nonliving things in an area and how they interact.
  9. 15. Nonliving things in an environment, like water, sunlight, and soil.
  10. 16. The surroundings where an organism lives.
  11. 17. A relationship where two organisms help each other.
  12. 18. A group of the same type of organisms living in the same area.
Down
  1. 1. How an organism gets bigger or a population increases.
  2. 2. Something in the environment that organisms need to survive, like food, water, or space.
  3. 4. How much of a resource is present in an ecosystem.
  4. 10. Facts or proof that support an idea or claim.
  5. 11. An animal that gets eaten by a predator.
  6. 13. A limit or restriction, like when there isn’t enough food for all animals in an ecosystem.