Ecology & Environment Crossword Puzzles

when water seeps into cracks, then freezes, we call it this, these mountains in the us are very smooth and eroded, physical feature of earth's …

a place where land meets water, provides habitat, clean water, flood control and stores carbon, a plant that smells of rotting meat to attract flies …

the property of water that allows objects to sink even big ships, the water that contains salts and minerals, the water that can be found in glaciers …

type of pollution that can be traced back to a single incident, highest point in an aquifer from in which water can be collected, earth system that …

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 weather event with winds over 35 mph and reduced visibility due to snow, short term day-to-day conditions, long term temperatures and conditions …

a flammable material without a definite form, produced from remains of marine organisms buried under layers of sediments found near oil deposited, a …

a natural substance formed from the buried remains of ancient organisms that can be used as a source of energy, large, slow moving bodies of ice, the …

temperate _ climates are located near a body of water, humid, warm winters, shows the monthly average temperature and precipitation for a particular …

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

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 variety of plants and animals in the world, the home where animals or plants live, protecting nature for the future, animals or plants at risk of …

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 …

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

the global movement of water in the deep ocean created by differences in temperature and salinity (salt content), moving like a conveyor belt, the …

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

decayed organic material used as plant fertilizer, general term for waste materials, discarded electrical or electronic devices, capable of …

a vast, flat, treeless arctic region, a thick subsurface layer of soil that remains frozen throughout the year, long term shifts in temperature and …

environmental _ - established a national policy and goals for the protection, maintenance, and enrichment of the environment, _ protection act - …

where there are lots of trees, a very hot and dry place, where water runs to the sea, where water falls from a cliff, the blue place way up high, …

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 …

the way we obtain resources/the amount of resources we have available, the scale on how reactive an element is, a fuel that we don't have the …

effect that's the curving path of a moving object from a straight path due to earth's rotation, front that is a of air masses that move very …

a different form of the same gene, chromosomes are divided into sections called what?, chromosomes are presented on a diagram called a.., the actual …

_ plants contain a thin and sticky coating around them that cleans the air by having dust stick to the coating, this part of the plant helps keep the …

branch of geography that describes the spatial aspects of interactions between human and the natural world, science that deals with climates and their …

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

energy generated from atoms, either by fission or by fusion [7], name for heat energy which is derived from the earths sub-surface [10], renewable …

the percentage of earth's water that is freshwater (2 words), process water vapor cooling and turning into liquid water, water that flows across …

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 …