BIODIVERSITY VOCABULARY

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