Nature Walk

2. – Any living thing, such as a plant, animal, or microorganism.
3. Harmful substances added to the environment that can damage living things.
5. – The variety of different living things in an ecosystem.
7. – The natural place where an organism lives.
10. Protecting natural resources and using them wisely.
12. Nonliving parts of an ecosystem, such as sunlight, water, air, soil, and temperature.
14. – All living parts of an ecosystem (plants, animals, fungi, bacteria).

1. – A community of living organisms and nonliving things that interact in an area.
4. Carefully watching and recording information using the senses.
6. How living and nonliving things affect each other in an ecosystem.
8. Energy from the sun that helps plants grow and warms the environment.
9. A trait that helps an organism survive in its environment.
11. – Everything that surrounds and affects a living thing.
13. The top layer of Earth where plants grow and organisms live.
15. chain, A sequence showing how energy is passed from one organism to another.