Life Science Vocabulary

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Of or relating to living organisms (6)
  2. 6. A physiological need to drink (6)
  3. 7. A community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member (9)
  4. 11. A bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent (8)
  5. 12. The manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts (9)
  6. 14. Animal hunted or caught for food (4)
  7. 15. A mathematical relation such that each element of a given set is associated with an element (8)
  8. 16. Someone who manufactures something (8)

Down

  1. 1. What lets us see; the opposite of dark (5)
  2. 2. The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (plural) (8)
  3. 4. Study of the natural world through experiments (7)
  4. 5. A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment (9)
  5. 8. A physiological need for food (6)
  6. 9. Any animal that lives by preying on other animals (8)
  7. 10. Any ___ information or event (8)
  8. 13. A community of organisms where there are several interrelated ___ chains (7)