Themes 4, 5 and 7
Across
- 2. is a group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
- 5. is the mating of animals in zoo or wildlife preserves.
- 8. type of grassland that receives as much as 120 centimeters of rain each year.
- 11. protecting whole ecosystems.
- 16. species not originally from an area.
- 20. an organism that obtains its energy by feeding on other organisms.
- 21. a consumer that eats only plants
Down
- 1. are structures in an organism's cells that carry its hereditary information.
- 2. biome with coniferous trees which have leaves shapes like needles and are green all year long.
- 3. are found in regions close to the equator, are wet, warm times that contain an amazing variety of plants and other organisms.
- 4. is an area that receives less that 25 centimeters of rain per year.
- 6. is an area that is populated mostly by grasses and other non-woody plants.
- 7. is the illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats.
- 9. biome with many deciduous tress trees which shed their leaves and grow new ones each year.
- 10. is a species that influences the survival of many other species in an area.
- 12. the number of different species in an area.
- 13. is an extremely cold and dry biome.
- 14. a consumer that ears both plants and animals.
- 15. an organisms that breaks down wages and dead organisms.
- 17. a consumer that eats only animals.
- 18. value all the species in an ecosystem are conned to one another. (pg 97)
- 19. an organisms that can make its own food.