Biodiversity

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Across
  1. 2. The kingdom that mushrooms and moulds belong to.
  2. 4. A living thing that makes its own food using sunlight.
  3. 6. An introduced pest brought to Queensland in 1935 to eat beetles. (two words)
  4. 9. A group of similar living things that can breed with each other.
  5. 11. A hard outer layer that protects insects and crabs.
  6. 12. Harmful chemicals or rubbish getting into the land, air or water.
  7. 15. A vertebrate with moist skin that starts its life in water, like a frog.
  8. 16. Body parts a fish uses to take oxygen out of the water.
  9. 17. An invertebrate with 6 legs and 3 body parts.
  10. 18. A vertebrate with hair or fur that feeds its young milk.
Down
  1. 1. The variety of life in an area.
  2. 3. An animal with a backbone.
  3. 5. Living and non-living things interacting in an area.
  4. 7. A ______ key uses questions with two choices to identify living things.
  5. 8. The highest, broadest level of classification.
  6. 10. The first word of a scientific name. It starts with a capital letter.
  7. 13. An animal without a backbone, like a spider or a worm.
  8. 14. The natural home of a plant or animal.