Across
- 2. A single living plant, animal, bacteria, or virus
- 3. The ability of a mineral to resist being scratched
- 5. To keep all the variables the same except the one variable being tested
- 7. to have a variety of something
- 10. the gas that surrounds a planet
- 11. The environment where an organism lives
- 12. organisms like fungi and some bacteria that break down and digest dead materials and wastes
- 15. path of energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem
- 17. In a _______ circuit, the electrons have a complete pathway to flow through
- 22. The ability of an object or substance to allow heat, electricity, or sound pass through it
- 25. one of more substances change into one or more new substances with different properties than the original substances
- 27. animals that eat meat
- 28. An object that orbits a planet
- 30. To try to outdo another for food, sunlight, water, space, etc
- 31. the ability to do work
- 32. The sprouting of a plant from a seed
Down
- 1. are formed form the decayed remains of ancient plants and animals that have been changed by physical and chemical processes
- 4. A behavior that an animal inherits from its parents
- 6. to develop physical and behavior characteristics that allow organisms to survive and have offspring.
- 8. A push or pull on anything
- 9. Material made of tiny pieces of rock, minerals, and decayed plant and animal matter
- 13. the shape, color, or pattern of an animal that helps it blend in with its surrounding
- 14. A measure of the pull of gravity on an object
- 16. A consumer is a living thing that eats other living things to survive
- 18. How high or low a sound is
- 19. explain something by giving details of its characteristics
- 20. to draw objects nearer
- 21. The part of a plant that holds the leaves up to sunlight and moves water, nutrients and food through the plant
- 23. the surroundings that an organism lives in
- 24. The material, or stuff, that everything is made of
- 26. To prevent or reduce the passage heat, electricity, or sound into, from, or through something
- 27. The innermost part of Earth
- 29. When a substance changes from a solid to a liquid
