Across
- 4. A group of living things that are similar and can have babies together.
- 6. The usual weather of a place over a long time (for example, hot and dry or cold and wet).
- 9. Another word for a consumer; it eats other living things for energy.
- 10. All the water on Earth—oceans, rivers, lakes, and even water underground.
- 11. An animal that eats only plants.
- 14. An animal that eats both plants and animals.
- 16. All the living things on Earth and the places they live.
- 18. A bunch of food chains connected together showing how energy moves through an ecosystem.
- 20. A living thing that eats other living things to get energy.
- 21. All the different populations that live together in the same area.
- 22. All the living and nonliving things in an area and how they interact.
Down
- 1. An animal that eats only other animals.
- 2. What the air is like outside right now (rainy, sunny, windy, etc.).
- 3. Another word for a producer; it makes its own food.
- 5. A living thing, like a plant, that makes its own food using sunlight.
- 7. Any living thing (a plant, animal, fungus, or tiny microbe).
- 8. All the members of one species living in the same area.
- 12. The solid part of Earth, including rocks, mountains, and land.
- 13. A large area on Earth with the same climate, plants, and animals (like a desert or rainforest).
- 15. A diagram that shows how energy moves from one level to another in a food chain.
- 17. The layer of gases (air) that surrounds the Earth.
- 19. An organism (like fungi or bacteria) that breaks down dead things and returns nutrients to the soil.