6th Grade Camp Science Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. The wearing away of earth or rock by various agents or forces, particularly water and air.
  2. 7. COLORATION A specific arrangement of color in an organism which increases its survivability (camouflage).
  3. 8. A plant that uses the sun's energy to produce food through photosynthesis.
  4. 9. SPECIES Those plants and animals that are in danger of becoming extinct.
  5. 13. WEB A system of interconnecting food chains.
  6. 15. An organism's place or role in its natural community.
  7. 17. Living on land.
  8. 18. A break in the earth's crust where one side moves against the other, resulting in an earthquake.
  9. 19. Most active during the day.
  10. 22. Those animals without a backbone including annelids, crustaceans, insects, and mollusks.
  11. 23. RESOURCE A resource that can be replaced in a relatively short time; Ex: wood, water, wind, solar energy
  12. 26. A characteristic (physical or behavioral) that improves an organism's chance for survival in a particular habitat.
  13. 27. Tribe of Indians who roamed from coast to desert.
  14. 30. A series of significant changes in appearance and body structure in an organism's life cycle.
  15. 31. A personal or social moral code.
  16. 32. The process by which green plants utilize sunlight to make food from carbon dioxide and water.
  17. 33. The ability to do work.
  18. 34. An animal that feeds on dead plants or animals.
Down
  1. 1. The number of particular species in a defined area.
  2. 3. The physical and chemical decomposition of rocks caused by weather (sunlight, moisture, changes in temperature, etc.)
  3. 4. Animals that are killed and eaten by other animals.
  4. 5. RESOURCES Materials found in nature that are used by people (sunshine, water, air, soil, minerals, forests, and wildlife, etc.)
  5. 6. Animals with backbones including 5 groups, amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles.
  6. 8. TECTONICS Referring to the forces within the earth that cause the movement of the crust resulting in earthquakes, volcanoes, faulting and other geologic events.
  7. 10. Natural resources that do not replenish themselves readily. Ex: rocks, oil, coal, and natural gas
  8. 11. Everything that surrounds an organism. including living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) matter.
  9. 12. Readily decomposing by natural biological processes.
  10. 14. A consumer which eats both plants and animals.
  11. 16. The arrangement of food, water, shelter, and space suitable to an organism's needs.
  12. 20. CAPACITY The total number of animals a given area is able to support.
  13. 21. An organism that feeds on living materials.
  14. 24. An organism that breaks down or decomposes materials into simpler forms (bacteria, fungi)
  15. 25. A group of living things which are generally found together within an ecosystem.
  16. 28. The imitation of one organism of another organism.
  17. 29. Series of continuous chances which return to a starting point.