Happy Habitats

Name: ______________________ Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

4. An investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole (8)
8. A plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms (6)
9. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs (7)
10. How plants make food from sunlight (14)
11. A community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member (9)
14. An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms. (8)
15. Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants (9)
16. An organism that makes its own food, usually using sunlight. (8)

1. The usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes (plural) (5)
2. Metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's (3)
3. Absence of light or illumination (4)
5. The responsive adjustment of a sense organ to varying conditions (10)
6. The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock (4)
7. Green parts of a tree that fall in autumn (6)
12. A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal (9)
13. What lets us see; the opposite of dark (5)