Year 7 Advent key terms

3. Organisms that can interbreed to produce fertile offspring (not such an important definition!)
6. A change in the characteristics of organisms over time
7. An organism that hunts, kills and eats other consumers
9. A feature of an organism that helps it to survive in its environment
11. Placing organisms into groups based on shared characteristics
12. The place an organism lives
16. A physical feature of an organism that helps it to survive in its environment
17. An organism that eats other organisms
20. The fourth organism in a food chain
21. A series of questions that helps to identify an ORGANISM

1. Dead organisms are broken down and the nutrients in them are recycled in this process
2. Organisms with a backbone
4. A more complex diagram showing feeding relationships between a wide range of species
5. A simple diagram showing feeding relationships
8. An example of this is migration
10. Something that fulfills all the characteristics of life (MRS GREN)
13. The predator at the top of the food chain
14. An organism that makes its own food (i.e. a plant)
15. The living and non-living parts of an environment interacting
18. This flows through ecosystems from one organism to another (in the form of food)
19. An organism that is hunted