Across
- 3. getting rid of waste products (like carbon dioxide or urine) that living things produce but don’t need, to keep their bodies healthy.
- 4. taking in food and using it for energy, growth, and repair, such as animals eating plants or other animals, and plants making their own food.
- 5. an organism regulates various activities inside itself, so as to maintain stable internal conditions (homeostasis)
- 8. breaking down food to release energy that living things need to move, grow, and stay alive (not the same as breathing).
Down
- 1. making new living things (offspring) so that a species can continue to exist, like when plants make seeds or animals have babies.
- 2. when a living organism moves itself (or part of itself) from one place to another.
- 6. when living things get bigger in size or increase in the number of cells, like a seed turning into a tree or a baby animal becoming an adult.
- 7. something that is living, or was once living but is now dead.
- 9. the ability to notice and respond to changes in the environment, such as plants growing toward light or animals running away from danger.