Ecology & Environment Crossword Puzzles

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 surface, lowest …

an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food, the process by which bacteria convert nitrates into nitrogen gas, releasing it into the …

solid waste produced by farming activities, waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment, waste generated …

transfer of energy through direct contact, the total kinetic energy of particles, occurs at or near the surface of the ocean, caused by wind, the …

greenhouse gas compounds that contain only carbon, fluroine, and chlorine, protective layer of gases that shelters all life on earth, regulates …

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 fall of snow, heavy, very windy snowstorm, cannot see ahead, sideways strong wind making piles of snow, a heavy snowfall with wind (type of storm), …

_ rainforests are mainly located between the latitudes of 23.5°n (the tropic of cancer) and 23.5°s (the tropic of capricorn)—the tropics, tropical …

bioindicators starts with m, bio indicators starts with p, occurs through a chemical reaction that produces light energy within an organism's body, …

an ecosystem's abilty to maintain equilibrium, funnel-shaped areas of land where all the water drains to the same body of water, water that has soaked …

protection, a source of water for desert plants, a period of time without any precipitations, a part of a broken glass, roots do it with water, a stem …

running water such as streams and rivers, unnatural lake caused by damming rivers, quarries or mines or stock ponds on ranches, region at lowest level …

these popular items can contain microplastics, a possible symptom of excessive exposure to microplastics, this type of feed stock can be used to …

materials carried and deposited by a glacier, this glacier is formed in mountainous regions, surface made up mostly of pebbles and small, broken rock, …

an area of ground covered by a single crop, with almost no other species present, the number of different species that live in an area, the complete …

where 1 organism benefits and the other gets nothing, where the weather changes from hot to cold, all non living factors present in an ecosystem, …

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

wet air, what happens when an updraft meets a downdraft and a dry air mass meets a wet air mass, something that forms in the sky that is white, a …

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 main cause of pollution in our atmosphere, the state of the atmosphere at any given time, this occurs midway between solstices, what cause air …

the wearing away and removal of rock by the sea, where eroded rocks are hurdled against a cliff wearing it away, where eroded rocks hit against each …

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

_ 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 …

all of the individuals of one species living at one location at one time, large swath or region defined by shared climate and distance from equator, …

where the cyclone forms, what the cyclone is called when it is 74 mph or below, the safest part of a storm, what the cyclone is called when it is 75 - …

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 …

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 …

the thin, feathery clouds high in the sky, the season with the warmest air, what the air is like outside, has strong winds, high ocean waves & …

forests cover _ percent of the planet, _ farming is responsible for 14.5% of global methane emissions, 3.5 _ to 7 _ trees cut down each year, if the …

required for photosynthesis (not carbon dioxide), the reactant in respiration, a product of photosynthesis (along with glucose), the process where …