Ecosystem Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. A living thing that makes its own food using sunlight (like plants)
- 5. A trait that helps an animal survive in its environment
- 6. A natural behavior an animal is born knowing how to do (like a bird building a nest)
- 8. A community of living things and their environment
- 11. Power that living things need to grow and move
- 12. A behavior or skill an animal develops through experience or practice
- 14. CHAIN, The order in which animals eat each other in nature
- 15. An animal that eats both plants and meat
- 16. A living thing that eats other living things for food
- 17. An animal that is hunted by another animal
Down
- 1. An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals
- 3. The place where an animal or plant lives
- 4. An animal that only eats meat
- 7. Traits passed down from parents to offspring (like eye color)
- 9. An animal that hunts other animals for food
- 10. An animal that only eats plants
- 13. Living parts of an ecosystem (plants, animals, fungi)
- 15. A living thing like a plant or animal