Features of Living Things

Mrs Gren - Things that Living things do!

Complete the crossword, then click on "Check" to check your answer. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number.

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2. This is the process of getting air in and out of the lungs. Often confused with the term respiration.
4. A type of food group. Meat and eggs are a good source of this. Important for building up muscle and other structural materials in the body.
5. The male sex cell
6. Important substances needed by the body.
8. A type of fertlisation which occurs inside the body of the female.
9. This will cause a response in a living thing.
11. The female sex cell which joins with the sperm during fertilisation.
12. The joining together of the sperm and the egg.
14. A type of reproduction involving the fusion of a male and a female sex cell.
16. This is the term given to a response to part of a plant to light.
17. An important organ of the human body for excretion.
18. These are produced by plants asexually - though they can look like seeds.
21. A chemical reaction that occurs in all living cells which produces energy.
23. The process by which plants produce their own food and oxygen gas.
24. This occurs as a result of a stimulus in living things.
25. These are essential for movement in living things.

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1. Muscles help this happen in animals.
3. Living things do this to get rid of waste products produced in the body.
7. A type of reproduction which does not requrie 2 parents or cells. A single cell can produce a new offspring.
10. A type of food group which includes sugars. An important source of energy.
13. Produced by pollen and an egg uniting in plants that produce sexually.
15. These are important for breathing.
19. A type of asexual reproduction. Simple plants like grass send these out to reproduce.
20. A type of food group. Excess energy is turned into this in your body.
22. This is where eggs are produced in females.