Biomes Key Terms Crossword Puzzle

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• biomes : a major terrestrial vegetation community eg a tropical forest, a temperate grassland or a desert.
• ecosystem : a community of interacting plants and animals and their physical surroundings.
• climate : the average types of weather, including seasonal variations, experienced by a place or region over a long period of time.
• climate change : a long-term change in regional or global climate patterns eg annual precipitation, frequency of weather events.
• biophysical processes : interconnected sequences that form and transform natural environments in a cause-and-effect relationship eg erosion, deposition, soil formation, nutrient cycling.
• environment : the living and non-living elements of the earth's surface and atmosphere. where unqualified, it includes human changes to the earth's surface eg croplands, planted forests, buildings and roads.
• biodiversity : the variety of living organisms and the environments they form.
• food web : a complex network of interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding relationships within a community
• desert : any large, extremely dry area of land with sparse vegetation.
• rain forest : found on every continent except antarctica, this biome is filled with mostly trees that typically receive high amounts of rainfall.