Environmental Engineering Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• grassland: a region where grass grows abundantly but large numbers of trees and shrubs do not.
• pound: an imperial measurement of weight equal to 16 ounces or about 0.45 kilograms.
• amount: a quantity of something.
• shrink: to get smaller.
• subtract: to reduce a number by an amount.
• minus: the second number is subtracted from the first.
• core: the center part of the earth that is very hot.
• terrain: land that has particular characteristics.
• environment: the natural area in which people live including the water, air, soil, and plant and animal life.
• times: it multiplies by another number.
• stratosphere: an outer layer of the atmosphere, farther from the earth than the troposphere, which filters out harmful rays from the sun.
• troposphere: the inner layer of the atmosphere, closer to the earth than the stratosphere, which contains most of the planet's air.
• moisture: an amount of liquid that makes something just slightly wet.
• skyrocket: to go very high very quickly.
• inter tidal zone: an area along a coast that is underwater when the tide is high and exposed to the air when the tide is low.
• row: a horizontal section of data in a table.
• average: it has qualities that are typical or most common in a particular group or category.
• lithosphere: the crust, or surface of the earth, and mantle, or layer below the surface.
• plummet: to fall very low very quickly.
• pattern: a way that something happens repeatedly.