Classification

5. a two-part name, especially the Latin name of a species of living organism
6. an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column
8. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
10. the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms
11. an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food
13. To get energy, they eat plants or other animals, while some eat both
15. an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.
19. an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
22. an animal that feeds on plants.
24. an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse.

1. an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
2. an animal lacking a backbone
3. the arrangement of animals and plants in taxonomic groups according to their observed similarities .
4. identification of organisms based on a series of choices between alternative characters.
7. the natural home or environment of an organism.
9. eats a variety of food of both plant and animal origin.
12. a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
14. Green plants make their food by taking sunlight and using the energy to make sugar.
16. animal that hunts.
17. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
18. animal that searches widely for food or provisions
20. an animal that feeds on other animals.
21. an animal that naturally preys on others.
23. organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense