Ecology & Environment Crossword Puzzles

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 measure of the average kinetic energy of air molecules, precipitation that soaks into the soil, all the water on earth's surface, rivers, …

sum total of all the plants, animals and micro-organisms in an area along with non-living components such as climate, river, etc, the part of the …

a relationship in which one species benefits and the other remains unaffected, an interaction in which the presence of one species has a negative …

deserts, deep oceans, mountains ice caps are what, conditions in which something lives in, a characteristic that helps an organism live in its …

broken down by erosion to begin soil production, grown without human interference, the amount of direct sunlight a region receives depends on …

a process that releases energy from organic molecules in the absence of oxygen, the interacting parts of a biological community & its environment, …

features of organisms that help them survive in their habitat, the study of organisms in their natural environment, a network of interactions between …

travelling with multiple people in a car, a seattle train running 100% on ecofriendly energy, best type of lightbulb, _ monday, no _ in the trash, _ …

normal pattern of weather, what occurs in an area over a long period of time, layer of the atmosphere above the stratosphere and below the …