BIODIVERSITY VOCABULARY

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Across
  1. 3. animals whose primary diet consists of eating producers
  2. 5. living things can't make their own food, but have to eat other living things to survive
  3. 7. living things
  4. 9. animals whose primary diet consists of eating a combination of plants and animals
  5. 12. cell parts which help with photosynthesis
  6. 13. made up of more than one cell
  7. 16. the local environment (the home) that an organism lives in, and includes the biotic and abiotic elements
  8. 17. a process by which plants turn energy from sunlight into food
  9. 19. animals whose body can maintain its internal temperature
  10. 22. the “brain” of the cell
  11. 24. a larger environmental area with many ecosystems in it sharing the same climate and types of living and nonliving things
  12. 26. the way that plants and animals are all connected to each other through the cycling of matter and energy
  13. 28. they have to find and eat their food
  14. 29. carnivores and omnivores that hunt other animals to eat
Down
  1. 1. living things whose primary diet consists of eating dead plants and animals
  2. 2. the variety of living things in a given place
  3. 4. cells cells with a flexible cell membrane instead of a rigid cell wall
  4. 5. a waxy layer of “skin” that protects that plant and keeps it from drying out
  5. 6. a fluid that fills the cell and helps the cell keep its shape
  6. 8. cell parts which help with photosynthesis
  7. 10. a green chemical that captures and stores energy from sunlight
  8. 11. animals that have a backbone
  9. 12. animals whose primary diet consists of eating other animals
  10. 14. the larger environmental area that could contain more than one habitat
  11. 15. special features that help living things survive in their habitat
  12. 18. living things that produce or make their food inside their bodies
  13. 20. herbivores and some omnivores are hunted by the predators
  14. 21. an animal or plant from another region of the world (from a completely different ecosystem) that doesn’t belong in their new environment
  15. 23. how organisms are related to each other through evolution
  16. 25. animals that do NOT have a backbone
  17. 27. animals whose body temperature changes according to the environment surround them