Across
- 3. living organisms create new individual organisms, or offspring
- 4. a tough, natural sugar polymer that forms the protective outer skeletons of insects and crustaceans, as well as the cell walls of fungi
- 8. animal classification that includes all living and extinct animals
- 10. plant life in general or the total plant cover in a specific area
- 11. a strong, mesh-like polymer made of sugars and amino acids that forms the cell wall of most bacteria
- 14. any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, plant, or fungus
- 17. tiny, single-celled reproductive units
- 18. an animal that has a backbone or spinal column
- 19. he process where plants, algae, and some bacteria use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create food (glucose) and release oxygen
Down
- 1. a living thing made of more than one cell
- 2. an animal that does not have a backbone or internal bony spinal column
- 5. living eukaryotic organisms
- 6. single-celled, eukaryotic microorganisms that lack a cell wall and behave in animal-like ways
- 7. any individual living system or being
- 9. biological kingdom that includes single-celled organisms with prokaryotic cells
- 12. make their own food using sunlight
- 13. chemical substances obtained from food that organisms need to live, grow, and stay healthy
- 15. allow certain organisms to convert carbon molecules into organic matter using energy from inorganic chemical reactions instead of sunlight
- 16. any system or life form that possesses or shows the fundamental characteristics of life
- 20. living things whose cells contain a distinct, membrane-bound nucleus and other specialized, internal compartments called organelles
