Living Things Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 1. a simple way to show how energy moves through a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
- 4. a living thing
- 6. all the members of one species living in a particular area
- 7. organism that is killed
- 9. an environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce “their address”
- 11. a more realistic way to show the flow of energy through many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
- 12. all the different populations that live together in an area
- 15. a process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than other members of the same species
- 19. an organism that a parasite lives on or in
- 20. the relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism and harming it
- 21. consumers that eat both plants and animals
- 23. the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment
- 24. the organism that does the killing
- 26. a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
- 28. the community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their non-living environment
- 29. a relationship in which both species benefit
- 30. any relationship in which two species live closely together and at least one of the species benefits
Down
- 2. the behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environments
- 3. an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
- 5. parts of a habitat that are living or once were living, and interact with an organism
- 6. an organism that can make its own food
- 8. is a relationship in which one species benefits and the otheris neither helped nor harmed
- 10. the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources
- 13. role of an organism in their environment “what their job is”
- 14. consumers that eat only plants
- 16. are the non-living parts of an organism’s habitat
- 17. is a group of organisms that can mate and reproduce
- 18. is a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
- 22. consumers that eat only animals
- 25. organisms that break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem
- 27. an interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients