Ecology & Environment Crossword Puzzles

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, …

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 - …

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 …

organisms that become established outside of their native range, symbiosis where both species benefit, two or more species that fight for a resource, …

many food chains, eats only meat, collects energy from the sun, consumes other organisms, role an organism has, biological community and abiotic …

the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet, the lowest region of the atmosphere, extending from the earth's surface, the layer …

amount of material something can hold, big, puffy clouds, filled to capacity, instrument used to find relative humidity, line on a weather map that …

the instrument that helps us determine the speed that the air is moving, at higher altitudes, air pressure _ because there are fewer air molecules …

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 …

gas which protects everything on the earth, gas from power plants and automobiles, a synthetic man made gas, clouds are located here, provides the …

eat both plants and meat, the process of using the energy from the sun to make food, they make it easy for roots to get air and for water to get into …

filtration and _ are methods of clarification, type of bag used for filtration, chlorine _ is when the chlorine attacks the larger pieces of sediment …

the business of providing holidays for people in the countryside, extremely small pieces of plastic that are harmful to the environment (usually used …

trophic level that ultimately supports all others; autotrophs, nonliving organic material, matter cannot be created or destroyed, consumers that eat …

a storm or system of winds that rotates about a center of low atmospheric pressure, advances at a speed of about 30 to 50 kilometers an hour, and …

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 biome in the middle of the continent, its made of plains of grass land, it's the south of the tundra, it has thick forests, the winters are …

role of mangrove ecosystem by which aquatic animals release their eggs or sperm during reproduction process, mangrove mechanism by which the roots are …

biome that receives 50-150 cm of precipitation a year; has many scattered shrubs, tall grasses and small trees, biome with wildflowers and grasses, …