Animal Science

5. - any living thing, including plants and animals, that grows, needs energy, and responds to its environment
7. - a living thing that cannot make its own food and must eat plants or other animals to get energy
9. Web - a network of many connected food chains that shows how different organisms in an ecosystem depend on each other for energy
11. - everything around a living thing, including both living (plants, animals) and nonliving (water, air, soil) parts

1. -a physical feature or behavior that helps a living thing survive and meet its needs in its specific habitat
2. Chain - a series that shows how energy moves from the sun to plants and then to animals as they eat one another
3. - a living thing, like fungi or bacteria, that breaks down dead plants and animals and returns nutrients to the soil
4. - the place where a plant or animal lives that provides everything it needs to survive, such as food, water, shelter, and space
6. - to stay alive by getting the food, water, air, and shelter needed to live
8. - the ability to do work or cause change, which all living things need to grow, move, and survive
10. - a living thing, usually a plant, that makes its own food using energy from the sun through a process called photosynthesis