Across
- 4. material in cells that is passed from parents to offspring
- 6. a quality or characteristic that makes one organism different from another
- 8. the stage when a larva changes to an adult
- 9. to receive traits from parents
- 10. what an organism does, how it behaves and acts
- 12. a hard outer covering
- 15. acquire to get or receive
- 16. the passing of traits from parents to offspring
- 17. an insect life cycle with four stages
- 19. a natural impulse or behavior that is not learned
- 20. the result of reproduction
- 21. everything an animal eats, the kinds of food it eats
Down
- 1. everything that surrounds an animal
- 2. traits that are learned or gained through the environment
- 3. when a living thing comes out of an egg
- 5. an insect life cycle with three stages
- 7. the worm like stage in an insect's life after it hatches from an egg
- 11. when an animal's body goes through extreme changes during its life cycle
- 13. the life cycle stage of a young frog when it has a tail and grows arms
- 14. the stage when a young insect looks like the adult
- 18. to lose an outer covering