Topic 1 Living Things in the Biosphere
Across
- 2. The basic unit of all life.
- 3. A structure in the body that is made of different kinds of tissues and performs a specific job.
- 5. Any individual living thing.
- 6. The main body of a plant that supports the leaves and flowers.
- 8. Wall: The rigid layer outside the cell membrane in plant cells and some other organisms.
- 11. Organisms that cannot make their own food and must eat other organisms.
- 12. A large sac in a plant cell that stores water and other substances.
- 13. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can reproduce with each other.
- 14. An organism that a parasite or virus lives in or on.
- 16. Eukaryotic organisms that cannot be classified as an animal, plant, or fungus.
- 17. The part of a plant that anchors it in the ground and absorbs water and nutrients.
- 18. Animals with a backbone.
- 19. Single-celled organisms that are prokaryotes (have no nucleus).
- 20. Organisms that make their own food, like plants.
Down
- 1. An organelle in plant cells where photosynthesis takes place.
- 4. Animals without a backbone.
- 7. A tiny, nonliving particle that invades and then reproduces inside a host cell.
- 9. The primary part of a plant that performs photosynthesis.
- 10. Organisms like mushrooms, molds, and yeasts that are heterotrophs with cell walls.
- 15. Generation: The mistaken idea that living things can arise from nonliving sources.