Living Things

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Across
  1. 2. The basic unit (building block) for all living things.
  2. 5. Organisms that have more than one cell.
  3. 6. Organisms that get their nutrients from other living things, such as animals, plants, or fungi.
  4. 7. Multicellular heterotrophs, such as cats and ants.
  5. 9. A unicellular organism with a nucleus, such as an amoeba.
  6. 11. Adaptation, nutrition, and reproduction.
  7. 14. The ability of a living thing to make another living thing similar or the same to itself.
Down
  1. 1. An organism with only one cell.
  2. 3. The gas that all plants need to live.
  3. 4. Multicellular decomposer (eats dead material), such as mushrooms and mold.
  4. 7. The processes through which living things adapt and react to their surroundings.
  5. 8. The process through which living things get their nutrients, water, and air (oxygen or carbon dioxide).
  6. 10. A unicellular organism without a nucleus, such as E. coli.
  7. 12. Anything that is not A) made of cells and does not B) do the three vital functions.
  8. 13. Organisms that get their nutrients from nonliving sources, such as the sun and the earth.
  9. 15. Multicellular autotrophs, such as trees and flowers.
  10. 16. The gas that all animals need to live.