Living Things Vocab
Across
- 4. Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms
- 7. Full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions
- 10. pyramid, A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
- 14. Organisms that produce their own food
- 17. A measure of the total dry mass of organisms within a particular region
- 18. Animals that feed on the bodies of dead organisms.
- 19. The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- 22. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- 23. A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area
Down
- 1. respiration, The process by which cells use oxygen to produce energy from food
- 2. A consumer that eats only plants.
- 3. web, A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
- 5. Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
- 6. Part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere
- 8. An animal that eats both plants and animals
- 9. chain, A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten
- 11. A consumer that eats only animals.
- 12. Conversion of light energy from the sun into chemical energy.
- 13. All the different populations that live together in an area
- 15. Organisms that eat living producers and/or other consumers for food.
- 16. Physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
- 20. Describes living factors in the environment.
- 21. of Conservation of Energy, Energy cannot be created or destroyed