Characteristics of Life

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Across
  1. 2. organisms need this to transport materials around their bodies and carry out chemical reactions.
  2. 3. What you are measuring or collecting data about in an experiment is the ______ variable
  3. 4. My dog barks at a squirrel and it runs up a tree. This is an example of which characteristic of life?
  4. 6. Grapes, pellets and carrots provide which basic need of a guinea pig?
  5. 7. The bacteria on your hands have what kind of cellular organization?
  6. 10. I have a dog! It's alive! That makes it an _____________.
  7. 14. When my dogs run around playing with their toys, they are showing which characteristic of life?
  8. 15. My friend breeds Labradors. She chooses the parent dogs carefully in order to get the color of puppies she wants. This is because dogs use _____________ reproduction.
  9. 17. A bear’s den provides which basic need for it?
  10. 18. You are able to walk and read and do math you couldn’t do as baby, because as you’ve grown up your body and brain ____________________.
Down
  1. 1. As soon as we get up in the morning my dogs want to go outside to pee, then eat breakfast! These activities show them trying to meet which basic need of living things?
  2. 5. Making a face at the sour flavor of the candy is an example of a(n) __________.
  3. 8. Variables that you keep the same across all parts of an experiment are called _____.
  4. 9. You put a super sour Warhead into your mouth and make a face. The Warhead is a __________ that caused you to make a face.
  5. 11. My son had to get rid of lots of old clothes over summer because they didn’t fit anymore. That’s because last year he _____ a lot
  6. 12. A tree uses the sun's energy to make food for itself. That makes it a(n) _______________.
  7. 13. The thing you are changing or comparing in an experiment is the ______ variable
  8. 16. Humans are made of many different kinds of cells. This makes them ___________ organisms.