Lesson 5 Science Vocabulary
Across
- 4. A set of events that repeat in the same order over and over
- 6. The gases that surround a planet
- 7. A living thing that can break down dead plants, dead animals, or animal waste
- 8. Tiny living things in water that produce their own food, like plants do
- 9. A living thing that eats other living things
- 12. cycle The process of carbon moving through living things and the environment
- 13. A living thing that is a decomposer, such as a mold or a mushroom
- 16. Anything that takes up space and has weight; can be in different forms such as solid, liquid, gas
- 17. A type of gas that plants release and animals breathe in
- 18. Tiny, floating living things in water that are smaller than algae and produce their own food, like plants do
Down
- 1. A pretend version of something that scientists use when the real thing is either too big, too small, or too complicated to work with
- 2. An organism that is usually a decomposer; some cause illness
- 3. All the living things that interact with each other and their environment in one place
- 5. dioxide A type of gas that plants sometime take in and that animals release when they breathe
- 10. Any living thing
- 11. A living thing that makes its own food
- 14. A group of things that affect each other and function as a whole
- 15. A substance that living things need to grow and stay healthy