Year 8 End of year Assessment Crossword
Across
- 8. Elements that take part in lots of chemical reactions
- 11. Organisms that eat other organisms as food
- 13. The way in which living organisms depend on each other to survive, grow , and reproduce
- 15. The area in which an organism lives
- 16. Elements on the left of the stepped line of the periodic table.
- 18. An animal that eats other animals
- 19. The conditions found in a habitat
- 20. When animals move somewhere warmer or with more food
- 22. The collection of the different types of organism present in an ecosystem
- 24. A horizontal row of the Periodic Table
- 25. Elements near the stepped line of the Periodic Table are metalloids
- 27. Organism that makes its own food by photosynthesis
Down
- 1. The build up of toxic chemicals inside organisms in a food chain
- 2. A particular place or role that an organism has in an ecosystem
- 3. Organisms that have lots of characteristics in common, and can mate to produce fertile offspring
- 4. Another name for the group 7 elements
- 5. A vertical column of the periodic table. The elements have similar properties.
- 6. Elements that take part in very few chemical reactions
- 7. The variety of organisms living in an area
- 9. Characteristic that helps an organism to survive in its environment
- 10. Section of DNA that contains the information for a characteristic
- 12. When animals sleep through winter in order to survive
- 14. The mass of a material in a certain volume
- 17. When no more individual species are left anywhere in the world
- 21. Chemical that contains all the information needed to make an organism
- 22. This happens when there are not enough resources available
- 23. An animal that is eaten by another animal
- 26. Long strand of DNA, which contains many genes