Ecology & Environment Crossword Puzzles

is a form of solid precipitation with distinct ice pellets, balls or irregular lumps of ice, tiny drops of water that form on cool surfaces at night, …

sediment deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake and builds up a landform, occurs where the agents of erosion deposit, or lay down, …

the cycling of chemical elements through living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem, the precipitation that flows over the surface of soil, a swelling …

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 …

what greenhouse gas makes up 0.04% of our atmosphere, is our atmosphere a pure substance or a mixture?, the atmosphere helps maintain a stable …

the major line of latitude where most tropical rainforests are located, the name of the largest tropical rainforest in the world, the name of …

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 …

h2o, excessive marine life harvesting, toxic metal contaminating seas, substances with varying effects, harmful chemicals for pest control, excess …

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 …

molecules contains it are known as organic molecules, makes up 0.04% of earth's atmosphere, this type of gas traps heat in the atmosphere, carbon …

the location in which an organism lives, the coloring or patterns on an animal's body that allow it to blend in with its environment, all of the …

_ is not created or destroyed, but is recycled, the _ cycle is _ moving from producers to consumers to decomposers back to producers, these organisms …

very strong or harmful, very severe or intense, snowstorm with strong wind, strong windy rainstorm, loud sound after lightning, bright flash in the …

ground that is permanently frozen, trees and shrubs that shed their leaves at the end of the growing season, a scrub land biome of dense, spiny …

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 …

a type of pollution caused by cars and factories, you can do this to old paper to make new paper, a natural resource that needs to be conserved, a …

reduced visibility often caused by pollution, at risk of becoming extinct, a long period of low rainfall, the large-scale clearing of forests, the …

generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes, is …

factors such as food, water and shelter that can affect a population based on the size of , the population _ is the number of individuals in a given …

this process converts ammonia to nitrite and then to nitrate, this is the process by which nitrogen gas from the atmosphere is converted into ammonia …

a naturally occurring mineral containing a valuable constituent (such as metal) for which it is mined and worked, to make less or cause to appear …

an amorphous hydrated ferric oxide, varying in color from dark brown to yellow, used as an ore of iron, soil formed by rock decay and left as a …

to move from one object to another or one place to another, weather over time, when something becomes different over time, an amount of air that moves …

the uppermost layer of vegetation in terrestrial biome, a narrow stratum of rapid temperature change in the ocean and lakes, a terrestrial biome at …

the breakdown of rock results from chemical change in the rock, commonly known as "rust". it occurs when oxygen combines with another …

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 …

continuous movement of water between earth's surface and air, gets energy from feeding directly on producers or the animals that feed on …

the power needed to do work, a living thing that makes its own food, a living thing that eats other living things, an animal that eats both plants and …

these organisms produce their own food to get the energy they need to live. most of them use photosynthesis to do this, these organisms consume …

a bright flash of light in the sky, a loud rumbling noise during a storm, adjective for very bad weather, adjective --when a cloud forms at ground …