PLANTS AND ANIMALS NUTRITION AND GAS EXCHANGE
Across
- 2. The absorption and digestion of food or nutrients by the body or any biological system.
- 7. Intake by plants.
- 9. The breakdown of complex molecules in living organisms to form simpler ones.
- 10. Which the plant collects through its roots.
- 11. Is the process in your body that turns simple structures into more complex structures.
- 13. Organisms that can’t make its own food supply, so they have to eat other things, like plants or other animals, to survive.
- 15. Is the process of breaking sugar into a form that the cell can use as energy.
- 19. Is a condition in which something takes in another substance.
- 21. Is an important organic compound in metabolism.
- 23. To continue to exist, and not to fail or be destroyed.
- 24. Responsible for gas exchange called respiration.
- 25. Typically found in plant leaves but can also be found in some stems.
Down
- 1. Providing energy for the process of photosynthesis to occur.
- 3. Is the energy currency of life.
- 4. Is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy.
- 5. The process of eliminating or expelling waste matter.
- 6. Are mainly sugars and starches that the body breaks down into glucose.
- 8. Delivers substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells.
- 12. Are animals that only eat plants.
- 14. Allows plants to absorb energy from light.
- 16. Are animals that gets food from killing and eating other animals.
- 17. Is a kind of animal that eats either other animals or plants.
- 18. Organisms are able to make their own food.
- 20. Provides energy for vital processes and for synthesizing new organic material.
- 22. Released by plants in the atmosphere.