Grade 6 Unit 3

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Across
  1. 2. Animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal
  2. 5. Very cold area near the North or South Pole
  3. 6. web Many food chains linked together in one ecosystem
  4. 9. Animal that lives in water, breathes with gills and has fins
  5. 15. Group of the same animals living together
  6. 16. Very dry place with little rain and few plants
  7. 18. consumer Plant-eating animal that is the first eater in a food chain
  8. 20. Very cold area around the South Pole, covered in ice and snow
  9. 21. chain The order of who eats whom in nature
  10. 23. Very high hill with steep sides
  11. 25. All the living and non-living things in an area and how they work together
  12. 26. Small, hard plates on a fish or reptile’s skin that protect the body
  13. 28. Animal that hunts and eats other animals
  14. 29. Natural home of an animal or plant
Down
  1. 1. Cold-blooded animal with dry, scaly skin, like a snake or lizard
  2. 3. Animal that lives in water when young and on land when older, like a frog
  3. 4. Animal with feathers, wings and a beak; most can fly
  4. 7. Animal that eats both plants and other animals
  5. 8. Baby birds
  6. 10. Animal that eats only other animals
  7. 11. Very large area of salty sea water
  8. 12. Light, soft parts that cover a bird’s body
  9. 13. Large area covered with many trees
  10. 14. Living thing (usually a plant) that makes its own food from sunlight
  11. 17. Breaks out of an egg
  12. 19. Body parts that help fish and some animals breathe in water
  13. 21. Flat body parts that help fish swim
  14. 22. Small animal with six legs and three body parts; many have wings
  15. 24. Warm-blooded animal with hair or fur; mothers feed milk to their babies
  16. 27. Animal that eats only plants