Living Things

4. The process of increasing in physical size.
8. A guide used to identify organisms based on their characteristics.
9. Animals with a backbone or spinal column.
10. The ability to detect and respond to changes in the environment.
11. A feature or quality belonging typically to an organism.
13. The biological process by which new individual organisms are produced.
14. The process by which green plants use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.

1. Animals without a backbone.
2. Any living entity, including plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms.
3. Warm-blooded vertebrates with hair or fur, and females produce milk to feed their young.
5. The process by which waste products of metabolism are eliminated from an organism.
6. The ability of an organism to change its position or location.
7. The process of breaking down food to release energy.
12. A change in the environment that elicits a response from an organism.