4A Taylor Mickens
Across
- 4. plants use water to help make energy, and they also lose some water to the surrounding air this is called _________
- 6. water can become _______ when it flows along the surface into lakes, rivers, and streams
- 9. Which sphere do meteors enter in?
- 10. __________________ in the soil or by a bacteria that lives in the roots of certain plants known as legumes
- 14. process which water is converted from its liquid state to the gaseous state (water vapor)
- 16. most of nitrogen on earth is in the _________
- 18. water that falls from the atmosphere in the form of rain, sleet, snow, hail, or freezing rain
- 19. plants looses water through its ______
- 20. The ______ is made up of all water on earth
Down
- 1. travels between living and non-living parts of our planet, the most abundant element in the atmosphere (makes up 78%), and cannot be used directly as a nutrient by plants and animals
- 2. when ______ die, their bodies decompose bringing the nitrogen into soil on land or into the oceans
- 3. the _______ is the air that surrounds earth
- 5. process which water vapor is changed back into liquid water
- 7. ____________ determines the type of precipitation that falls from the clouds
- 8. 2.5% of the Earth's water is ____________
- 11. _______ is the form commonly used by plants
- 12. 30.1% of the earth's fresh water is __________
- 13. process where water moves above, on, and below the Earth's surface
- 15. The _______ is made up of all living organisms on earth
- 17. The _________ is made up of rocks, minerals and ground that are found on and in Earth