KES Science 2a: Ecosystems Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Consume other organisms for energy (animals)
  2. 6. A period when an animal goes into a long deep sleep.
  3. 9. Animals that eat only plants
  4. 10. The movement of a group of animals from one region to another and back again.
  5. 14. Animals that eat only meat (other animals)
  6. 16. An individual living thing. ONE.
  7. 18. An organism that is placed into a new environment where it is not native.
  8. 19. Changing to make it easier to live in a certain area.
Down
  1. 1. The order of events of how energy is passed from one organism to another.
  2. 3. The living organisms in an ecosystem
  3. 4. Make their own food. (Plants)
  4. 5. All the food chains in a single ecosystem.
  5. 7. Having an advantage or being helpful
  6. 8. Get energy by feeding on the dead bodies of plants and animals. (Fungi & Bacteria)
  7. 11. An animal’s color or pattern that helps it blend into its surroundings
  8. 12. Harmful, causing or capable of causing damage
  9. 13. Every living and non-living thing that interacts in one specific place.
  10. 15. Animals that eat plants and meat (other animals)
  11. 17. Allows an animal to look, sound, or act like another animal or object.
  12. 20. The nonliving items in an ecosystem