Ecology & Environment Crossword Puzzles

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

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

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

how something is spread out, a town which is close to the arctic that we have studied, the continent that contains canada, usa , alaska, soil or …

a way to divide a place into smaller areas, time _ are areas that share the same clock time, a _ map shows states, countries, and boundaries, a …

the seychelles are located in this ocean, the largest member of the dolphin family, they can hold their breath for up to twenty minutes, this sea …

the amazon is the worlds largest tropical.., what does vegetation release into the air, what continent is the amazon rain forest found in, burning …

when the sun is shining with little or no clouds, when the sky is covered with clouds, when there is a lot of wind, measures air pressure, when there …

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

living things that can move, eat and grow, animals that usually have fur or hair and feed milk to their babies, animals with feathers and wings, …

waste material or items that are discarded and no longer needed or wanted, the act of throwing away or discarding food that could have been eaten or …

level of ecology that studies how species interactions, such as predation and competition, affect community structure and organization, level of …

convert waste into reusable material, nonrenewable energy sources like coal and oil, keeping waste types apart, environmental contamination, reused …

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

a line or path along which ecological measurements are made at regular intervals to study the distribution of species across a habitat, a square …

a living renewable energy source, what kind of transportation is “people powered”, what is the most widely used renewable power source, what part …

cutting down all the trees in a large area, causing no increase in greenhouse gas emissions, a group of living things connected because each one eats …

the last ice age began about two- _ years ago and the ice sheet began to retreat about eighteen-thousand years ago, a glacier is a huge mass of moving …

variety of life and organisms in a habitat or ecosystem, biological variation that occurs within a species, diagram that shows how organisms are …

an area designated to receive household garbage , solid waste and construction debris, contamination of the air, water, or soil with substances that …

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 …

group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area, bacteria and fungi that break down materials, any living part of the environment …

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 …

the largest ocean, having to do with the sea, an animal that eats animals for its food, the prey of polar bears, an instrument with powerful lenses …

movement of air that redistributes the sun's heat over the earth's surface, when the earth revolves, or moves, around the sun in a nearly …

when plants and herbivores cycle in a population, when a limiting factor is affected regardless of population density, when a population decreases in …

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 …

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 …

a storm with thunder, lightning, and heavy rain, a violent rotating column of air in a storm, a large tropical storm with high winds and heavy rain, a …

_ endangered species have a very high risk of extinction in the immediate future (10 years)., _ species have a high risk of extinction in the near …