Ecology & Environment Crossword Puzzles

able to be broken down by living organisms such as bacteria, which is then safe for the environment, describing a state in which carbon dioxide …

are organisms with shells/skeletons made from calcium carbonate, is the exchange of carbon dioxide rapidly between plants and animals through …

there are four types of thunderstorms. _ thunderstorms are the strongest and most severe, _ is an electrical discharge that occurs within …

a colour often linked to sustainability(5), the type of energy provided by the sun?(5), the method used for growing plants in water?(10), the method …

where carbon is originally located, non-living things, element that has to be converted through nitrogen fixation, process of chemical elements being …

a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from the clouds, falling ice that are in the …

beneath the emergent layer is the _ , a deep layer of vegetation roughly six meters (20 feet) thick, producers, such as trees in borneo's thick …

when the land warms up, it heats the air above it. this causes the air to expand and rise, air rises and it cools and condenses, the horizontal …

the tundra gets very little _ , desert biome receives very little annual _ , tundra: most of its water comes from _ , the _ desert in mongolia is a …

a biome with tall grasses, also known as a tropical grassland, covering half of africa, which biome covers 3/4 of earth, a frozen layer under the …

a large-scale ecosystem, a region in which yearly patterns of temperature, rainfall, and sunlight are similar throughout, found near the equator with …

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

the contamination of the atmosphere by pollutants from human and natural sources, measuring how clean or polluted the air is, is produced when …

saving and wise use of natural resources, material from earth that people use are _ resources, damage done to the environment by the introduction of …

a community of living organisms interacting in their physical environment, when one organism hunts and eats another, the part of earth where life …

the three "r"s are reduce, reuse and, if we lesson our use of, we are, turn out the lights to save, this is made from trees, carpooling …

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 living things and nonliving things in an area, an organism that uses the sun’s energy to make its own food, an animal that eats other organisms …

this acts on an object in all directions (2), this instrument measures wind speed, the term when a barometer is at 29.92" hg and 59 degrees f at …

a hard rock which can be burned as a fossil fuel, the average of weather conditions in an area over a long period, scientists estimate that this has …

capable of being maintained without depleting resources, outcome or consequences resulting from an action, contamination of air, water, or soil by …

- the process of converting waste materials into new products, - a place where waste is buried under layers of soil, - waste materials that are …

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

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

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 …

transported by currents from the earth's equator to the poles, current: carries warm water away from the equator toward cool areas, long-term …

a series of chemical reactions that convert light energy, water, and carbon dioxide into the food-energy molecule glucose and give off oxygen, all the …

makes up 78% of earth's atmosphere, the second most abundant gas in earth's atmosphere, the measure of the force of air molecules on a …

the process by which water moves through the earth and the atmosphere, water that falls to earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, the …

a rise in average global temperatures, the average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time, large, clockwise rotating tropical …