APES SUMMER CONCEPTS

1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738
Across
  1. 2. Group that can reproduce fertile offspring
  2. 4. Short-term atmosphiric conditions
  3. 6. Movement of Earth’s crustal plates
  4. 7. Energy of motion
  5. 12. Requires oxygen
  6. 13. Mixture of minerals, organic matter, water, and air that supports plant growth
  7. 14. Trait that improves survival
  8. 15. Break down dead organic matter
  9. 16. Respiration Cells break glucose down for energy
  10. 19. Living and nonliving things interacting
  11. 20. Energy cannot be created or destroyed
  12. 23. Breakdown of rocks over time
  13. 24. Long-term shift in Earth’s climate
  14. 26. Toxins building up in organisms over time
  15. 28. A single living thing
  16. 29. All living populations in one area
  17. 31. Every energy transfer increases disorder (Energy is lost)
  18. 32. One contains carbon-based life compounds; the other usually does not
  19. 33. Occurs in nature
  20. 34. Best-adapted organisms survive and reproduce
  21. 35. Human (activity or cause)
  22. 37. Contains carbon-based life compounds
  23. 38. Human-made
Down
  1. 1. Organisms that eat other organisms
  2. 3. Unstable atoms breaking down over time
  3. 5. Permanent disappearance of a species
  4. 6. Plants use sunlight to make glucose and oxygen
  5. 8. Segment of DNA coding for a trait
  6. 9. Excess nutrients causing low oxygen in water
  7. 10. long-term atmosphiric patterns
  8. 11. Members of one species in one area
  9. 17. Time for half of a radioactive sample to decay
  10. 18. Variety of life in an area
  11. 21. No oxygen needed
  12. 22. Organisms that make their own food
  13. 25. Change in DNA sequence
  14. 27. Energy of motion vs. stored energy
  15. 30. Pool All genes in a population
  16. 36. Characteristic passed from parents to offspring