Unit 9-10 vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. – cell that contains an organized nucleus
  2. 3. a relationship between two species, or individuals of the same species, that strive for the same resources in the same place.
  3. 6. – cell that does not contain a nucleus
  4. 8. the effect that a pair of organisms living together in a community have on each other.
  5. 9. – the living and nonliving components of an environment
  6. 12. – all of the members of a species living in a particular area at a particular time
  7. 14. – a basic unit of structure and function in living organisms
  8. 19. reproduction – mode of reproduction with two parents
  9. 20. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
  10. 21. – organism made up of more than one cell
  11. 23. - organisms that share common characteristics and are capable of interbreeding.
  12. 25. – organisms, known as producers in a food chain, capable of synthesizing their own food by a process known as photosynthesis; all plants and some forms of bacteria and other organisms
  13. 26. – second broadest taxonomic classification of organisms
  14. 27. – the process or system of describing the ways in which organisms are grouped or classified according to similarities and differences
Down
  1. 1. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
  2. 4. web-a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment.
  3. 5. chain-When animals eat, the energy in the food passes along a food chain.
  4. 7. – organism made up of only one cell
  5. 10. reproduction – mode of reproduction with only one parent
  6. 11. factor-anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing
  7. 13. a living thing that can function on its own
  8. 15. nonliving factors in the environment; physical rather than biological; do not come from living organisms
  9. 16. theory – states that the cell is the basic unit of life, all living organisms are composed of cells, and all cells come from pre-existing cells
  10. 17. – a structure within a cell that contains the cell’s DNA and is responsible for providing instructions to the cell, regarding growth and reproduction
  11. 18. – all of the populations sharing a specific area or region
  12. 22. living factors in the environment; relating to, produced by, or caused by living organisms
  13. 24. – broadest taxonomic classification of organisms