Unit 3: Matter to Organisms Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. a process in which the Sun heats liquid water and changes it into a gas.
  2. 6. an animal that only eats other animals.
  3. 10. an animal that eats another animal.
  4. 11. an organism that gets its energy by feeding on decaying organisms and wastes.
  5. 14. Earth’s liquid water and ice, water in soil and rock, and water vapor in the air.
  6. 17. an animal that eats only plants and plant products.
  7. 18. non-living or related to non-living things
  8. 19. the clearing of trees and forests for non-forest use.
  9. 21. an animal that eats plants and other animals.
Down
  1. 1. a process in plants that uses sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make food.
  2. 2. Cycle the process in which water is recycled over and over again through the hydrosphere.
  3. 4. an organism that can make its own food and provides food for other organisms.
  4. 5. any form of water that falls from the sky.
  5. 7. Web all the paths that energy can take through an ecosystem.
  6. 8. a process in which water vapor cools and turns into drops of water.
  7. 9. an animal that is eaten by another animal.
  8. 12. Chain the path of energy through an ecosystem.
  9. 13. a series of events that repeats.
  10. 15. Cycle a natural cycle in which nitrogen in the air is used by plants and animals and is then released into the air again.
  11. 16. living or related to living things
  12. 20. an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms.