Ecology & Environment Crossword Puzzles

the process of making air, water, soil, etc. dirty; the state of being dirty, one of the large land masses of the earth such as europe, asia or …

not capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other living organisms, any substance or object that is discarded or intended to be discarded, a site …

round balls of ice that fall from thunderstorms, a bright flash of electricity in the sky during a storm, frozen precipitation in the form of white …

a unit consisting of living and nonliving organisms in the environment, a living thing, abiotic (ex. sunlight, soil, water, oxygen), biotic (ex. …

the natural place an animal lives, indigenous to an area, something an animal has or does to aid its survival, absolutely necessary, unique, different …

many food chains, eats only meat, collects energy from the sun, consumes other organisms, role an organism has, biological community and abiotic …

variety of life forms within a system, a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, along with weather and landscape, work together, …

large natural flow of water that moves toward a larger body of water like a lake or ocean, salt water with salinity levels between 32-35ppt, water …

an organism that needs to eat other organisms for food, an animal that eats plants, an animal that hunts or eats other animals, an animal that eats …

point on the earth´s surface above the focus of an earthquake, type of graph that shows how quickly a river responds to a rainfall event, a tidal …

white fluffy things you see in the sky on a sunny day, measures how hot or cold it is, the layer of air surrounding earth, a sudden flash of light and …

a rotating cloud that can cause destruction, a sudden violent shaking of the ground, a destructive storm with strong winds and heavy rain, a …

a storm with a violent wind, in particular, a tropical cyclone in the caribbean, a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the …

a long period of time without rain, animals, such as wolves, are doing this to make their homes in the ground, when water seeps into cracks, then …

a rapid discharge of electrical energy into the atmosphere, flooding occurs within a few hours of heavy or excessive rainfall, fluffy white stuff from …

feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem, combined portions of earth in which all life exists, soil bacteria convert nitrates …

pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds, cumulus clouds are the puffy clouds that look like puffs of cotton, a tool that …

an organism that produces food, an organism that hunts for its food, eats both plants and animals, the relationship between a bee and a flower, an …

the clearing of forests on a massive scale, the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of deforestation, the reduction in …

caused by uneven heating of land and water which causes a rising and sinking of warm and cool air masses creating convection currents, water changing …

an individual living thing composed of one or more cells, the overlapping of food chains in an ecosystem, energy links between different organisms in …

the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet, the lowest region of the atmosphere, extending from the earth's surface, the layer …

amount of material something can hold, big, puffy clouds, filled to capacity, instrument used to find relative humidity, line on a weather map that …

unsustainable use of natural resources, the natural environment in which a species lives and grows, concerned with beauty or the appreciation of …

a large mammal with a trunk, found in savannahs and forests, an area covered in trees and undergrowth, an area covered with water, home to fish and …

two populations that benefit from one another and often depend on each other for survival, creates its own food directly from solar energy through …

a living thing that is not an animal, the living place for an animal or a plant, the genes from the mother and father are combined to make a new life, …

bioindicators starts with m, bio indicators starts with p, occurs through a chemical reaction that produces light energy within an organism's body, …

the instrument that helps us determine the speed that the air is moving, at higher altitudes, air pressure _ because there are fewer air molecules …

one of the most deadliest and costliest hurricanes ever, a hurricane is declared by the hurricane center 36 hours before it hits, hurricanes found in …