Org. and Environment Review

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Across
  1. 3. - eat the remains of organisms left behind by other animals
  2. 5. - any characteristic that helps a plant or animal survive
  3. 6. web - a series of overlapping food chains
  4. 7. - the place where an organism lives
  5. 8. - organisms that make their own food using energy from the sun
  6. 10. - Traits that are passed down from parent to offspring; fill in this blank "instinctive/_______________ behavior
  7. 11. chain - traces ONE path of energy as it moves from one organism to the next in an ecosystem
  8. 12. - physical adaptation where organism resembles something else or its surroundings
  9. 14. - All of the living organisms on Earth interacting together
  10. 15. - Greek word meaning "housed"; this is where we get the word ecosystem
  11. 16. - feed on the remains or wastes of other organisms and break it down
  12. 17. - community of plants, animals, bacteria, organisms interacting with each other and with the nonliving environment
Down
  1. 1. - animal trait that develops from being taught or passed down rather than by heredity; fill in the blanks - "_______ behavior"
  2. 2. - Greek root word that means "form" or "shape"
  3. 4. - a physical adaptation that helps an animal blend in with their surrounding environment
  4. 7. - consumers that are plant eaters and feed directly on producers
  5. 9. - consumers that are meat-eaters; they eat herbivores or other carnivores
  6. 13. - any organism that gets it food from eating another organism