BIOSPHERE CHAPTER 3 - VOCABULARY

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Across
  1. 4. Any living or once living part of the environment.
  2. 6. Average conditions including temperature and precipitation over long periods of time in a given area.
  3. 11. Any nonliving part of the environment.
  4. 12. Trees that do lose their leaves during the year.
  5. 13. Microscopic organisms that live in aquatic environments.
  6. 14. Groups of individuals of the same species that live in the same area.
  7. 16. The scientific study of the interactions between organism and their environment .
  8. 20. All of the organisms that live in a place along with their nonliving environment.
  9. 21. Body of water, partly enclosed by land, that occurs where freshwater meets saltwater.
  10. 22. Below the photic zone where sunlight does not penetrate and photosynthesis cannot occur.
  11. 23. Trees that do not lose their leaves during the year.
  12. 24. All parts of the Earth where life exists.
  13. 25. Group of similar organisms that can breed and produce viable offspring.
  14. 27. Permanently frozen soil.
Down
  1. 1. The layer of the rainforest found underneath the canopy.
  2. 2. The uppermost zone of an aquatic ecosystem where there is enough sunlight for photosynthesis to occur.
  3. 3. A biome with long cold winters dominated by coniferous trees.
  4. 5. An area of land that is flooded with water at least sometime during the year.
  5. 7. Effect by which certain gases trap sunlight in the Earth’s atmosphere as heat.
  6. 8. The dense covering of trees in a rainforest.
  7. 9. The layer of gases that surround the Earth.
  8. 10. A group of ecosystems that share similar biotic and abiotic conditions.
  9. 15. Material formed from decaying leaves.
  10. 17. All of the rock at and below the Earth’s surface.
  11. 18. The day to day conditions in Earth’s atmosphere.
  12. 19. All of the water in the biosphere.
  13. 26. All of the different populations that live in a particular area.