Behaviours of Living Things Vocabulary
Across
- 4. something that prevents survival or reproduction
- 5. characteristics or traits passed from parent to offspring
- 6. the form and structure of an organism
- 7. a trait or characteristic that prevents survival in an environment
- 11. having more than one mate
- 14. behaviours that are learned through interactions within living environment
- 17. the act of natural events occurring and
- 18. reproduction involving the joining of gametes (egg and sperm or pollen and ovum)
- 19. chemicals in living organisms that act as a stimulus, often for sexual behaviour
- 20. how something works, for example – how does the heart work
Down
- 1. specific actions or abilities to protect oneself
- 2. having only one mate
- 3. something that causes or elicits are reaction from a living organism, example: the sun shines
- 8. characteristics that are an advantage to survival and reproduction
- 9. reproduction involving only one parent (like cloning)
- 10. how an organism acts in its environment
- 12. something that helps an organism accomplish survival or reproduction
- 13. something that an organism is born with
- 15. a behaviour that is caused by a stimulus, example: we squint because the sun is bright
- 16. the physical design of something, for example, what does the heart look like