Ecosystems and Matter Cycle - Why do you have to clean a fish tank but nor a pond?
Across
- 3. An organism that is usually a decomposer; some cause illness.
- 5. Cycle The process of carbon moving through living things and the environment.
- 7. Any living thing.
- 9. A living thing that eats other living things.
- 13. A living thing that can break down dead plants, dead animals, or animal waste.
- 14. Tiny, floating living things in water that are smaller than algae and produce their own food, like plants.
- 15. A living thin that is a decomposer and has spores, such as a mold or mushroom.
- 17. A substance that living things need to grow and stay healthy.
- 18. Tiny living things in water that produce their own food like plants do.
Down
- 1. A set of events that repeats in the same order over and over.
- 2. The gases that surround a planet.
- 4. A type of gas that plants sometimes take in and that animals release when they breathe.
- 6. A type of gas that plants release and animals breathe in.
- 8. A pretend version of something that scientists use when the real thing is too big, small, or complicated to work with.
- 10. All the living things that interact with each other and their environment in one place.
- 11. A living thing that makes its own food.
- 12. Anything that takes up space and has weight; it can be in different forms such as solid liquid, or gas.
- 16. A group of things that affect each other and function as a whole.