B4.2 - Modes of nutrition
Across
- 3. A plant that is rooted in the soil and grows twisting up along a tree, using it as a scaffold __________________________
- 7. Adaptations of predators and prey can be __________, ____________, or _______________ (write your answer as one word) __________________________
- 9. An animal that’s eaten by a predator __________________________
- 10. A form of animal nutrition that involves internal digestion __________________________
- 11. The breakdown of food molecules into smaller molecules; can be internal or external
- 12. One of the three domains of life; its members have many different ways of obtaining energy and organic compounds __________________________
- 15. The process by which photoautotrophs convert light energy into chemical energy __________________________
- 17. An organism that gets its complex organic compounds by eating other organisms __________________________
- 18. Can live in either of two modes - e.g. a ________________ anaerobe can use oxygen or live without it __________________________
- 19. Must live in one mode - e.g. an ________________ anaerobe cannot live in the presence of oxygen __________________________
Down
- 1. An organism that can make complex organic compounds from inorganic compounds like carbon dioxide __________________________
- 2. A compound, often toxic, that is synthesized by an organism but isn’t essential for its growth or survival - caffeine is an example __________________________
- 4. After being absorbed, molecules are incorporated into body tissues and used to make other molecules __________________________
- 5. An animal that eats plants __________________________
- 6. A form of animal nutrition that involves external digestion __________________________
- 8. Can act as an autotroph or a heterotroph; the protist Euglena is an example __________________________
- 13. A type of epiphyte that eventually kills the tree it’s living on
- 14. An animal that captures and eats prey animals __________________________
- 16. A plant that grows on trees, often starting out where branches meet the trunk; not rooted in the soil __________________________