Science Vocabulary Words- Unit 26

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Across
  1. 4. plants that make their own food and are a source of food to animal species
  2. 7. the role played by a species in the community it inhabits: where it lives, what it eats, what preys on it, what it does, and what it needs.
  3. 9. organisms that eat both plants and animals.
  4. 11. organisms that help enrich soil by breaking down the remains of dead and decaying plants and animals.
  5. 13. any living thing on the planet.
  6. 14. a single cell organism made up of plant or plant like organisms.
  7. 15. the environment or home of an organism
Down
  1. 1. organisms that eat only plants. these include small and large mammals,insects, and sea creatures.
  2. 2. a diagram that links organisms to all their varied food sources in a community and shows the flow of energy.
  3. 3. creatures that mostly eat meat.
  4. 5. an organism that eats plants, or eats other animals that eat plants.
  5. 6. a linear sequence showing one organism being eaten by another.
  6. 8. all the populations of living and nonliving things– water, rocks, and soil– that interact with one another in a certain place.
  7. 10. all the different populations of plants and animals living together in the same place.
  8. 12. a group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place. A school of fish, a herd of cattle, and a flock of geese are all examples of a population.