Across
- 4. Having to do with farming and growing crops or raising animals for food.
- 8. Balance When all the plants and animals in an area are living together in a healthy, stable way.
- 9. Something made by people instead of happening naturally.
- 10. A living thing that gets energy by eating other plants or animals.
- 11. The natural environment where an animal lives and finds everything it needs to survive.
- 13. When animals eat dead animals that they didn't kill themselves, like vultures eating roadkill
- 17. The tuft of feathers on top of a bird's head.
- 19. Using natural resources in a way that doesn't use them up so future people can still have them.
- 20. The way plants make their own food using sunlight, water, and air.
- 21. Areas of land that are covered with shallow water, like swamps and marshes, where special plants and animals live.
Down
- 1. A living thing, usually a plant, that makes its own food using sunlight.
- 2. The number or rate of deaths in a group of animals or plants over a certain time period.
- 3. An animal that hunts and eats other animals to survive.
- 5. Protecting animals, plants, and nature so they don't disappear forever.
- 6. Breaking down food in the body to get nutrients and energy.
- 7. Baby deer that are usually brown with white spots.
- 12. The total number of the same type of animal or plant living in one area.
- 14. An animal that can live both in water and on land, like frogs, toads, and salamanders.
- 15. All the living things (plants and animals) in an area and how they work together with their environment.
- 16. Controlled or managed by rules to keep something safe or balanced.
- 18. Bringing something back to the way it used to be, like fixing a damaged forest or pond.