Across
- 4. organism that obtains food by consuming other living things; also called a consumer
- 6. physical or behavioral features of an organism that help them to survive in their environment.
- 9. salt water biome. Includes oceans, seas, and estuaries that cover about 75% of the planet
- 10. coldest and driest biome. Layers of permafrost, long winters and months of total darkness
- 11. rich soil (for crops), but not enough rain for trees and cold winters.
- 13. still and flowing bodies of water surrounded by land (like lakes, ponds, rivers, streams)?
- 15. hot and humid biome found close to the equator, with lots of plant and animal diversity.
- 16. an organism that eats other organisms for food
- 19. an organism that eats only plants
- 21. a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
- 22. an organism that makes its own food
Down
- 1. a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
- 2. an organism that feeds on "leftovers" or dead and decaying matter
- 3. large geographic areas that have similar climates.
- 5. physical area in which an organism lives
- 7. (Evergreen Forest)world's largest land biome. No permafrost with long cold winters and short summers.
- 8. a relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
- 12. organism that can make its own food
- 14. a system made up of an ecological community of living things interacting with their environment especially under natural conditions everything that exists in a particular environment
- 17. a system composed of organisms and nonliving components of an environment.
- 18. forest four seasons, rainfall spread through the year, and rich soil (Virginia)
- 20. science dealing with the relation of living things to their environment and to each other