Across
- 3. a unit of plants, animals, and nonliving components of an environment that interact.
- 6. The world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and characterized by adaptation of organisms to that particular environment.
- 7. anything an animal does involving action and/or response to stimulation.
- 8. an animal with no backbone
- 11. species a species of plant or animal of which numbers are decreasing at an alarming rate and is threatened with extinction by human-made or natural changes in the environment.
- 13. an animal that eats both plants and animals
- 14. any body part, behavior, or physiological capability that increases an animal's ability to survive in its environment.
- 15. an animal that eats only animals
- 17. an animal that hunts other animals
- 18. no longer existing on the Earth.
Down
- 1. shading dark and light colors are a form of camouflage.
- 2. an animal with a backbone
- 4. taking care of our environment by wisely managing its resources
- 5. an animal that eats only plants
- 9. the total surroundings and forces that act upon a living thing.
- 10. the place where an animal lives
- 12. ration that blends in with the surrounding environment.
- 16. verb: to hunt and eat other animals. noun: an animal eaten by another animal
