Across
- 2. an attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes
- 4. a consumer that hunts and eats another animal
- 7. put similar things in a group
- 12. a diagram that combines many food chains into one picture
- 13. organism that cannot make its own food
- 14. the group of all population in an area
- 16. the process of an animal changing from during its life cycle
- 17. organism that makes its own food for energy
- 19. a species that has no more members of its kind alive
- 21. a place that provides all the things an organism needs to live
- 23. a hard skeleton on the outside of the body of some animals
- 26. a characteristic that increase an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in its environment
Down
- 1. the level of classification of living things below domain
- 3. a group of similar organisms that can mate and produce offspring that can also produce offspring
- 4. any animal that is hunted by others for food
- 5. a tool used to signify organisms
- 6. all of the conditions surrounding an organism
- 8. a group of organisms of one species that in in an area at the same time
- 9. organism that gets its energy from breaking down wastes and dead organisms
- 10. all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions
- 11. the level of classification of living things below kingdom
- 15. a series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another
- 18. an animal without a backbone
- 20. an animal with a backbone
- 22. the struggle among organisms for the same limited resources
- 24. a type of plant with tubes that carry food and water to all parts of the plant.
- 25. any substance that damages the environment