BIOMES

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Across
  1. 2. - CIRCULATING WATER DISTURBING OXYGEN AND NUTRIENTS, MAY FORM LAYER OF ICE, ALGEA OR PLANTS IN WATER
  2. 4. - THE MOST SPECIES OF ALL BIOMES, WARM AND WET YEAR ROUND. HAS A CANOPY.
  3. 6. - ORIGINATES FROM GROUND WATER SOURCES OR MOUNTAINS, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, CARRIES NUTRIENTS
  4. 9. - ZONE CONTROLLED BY TIDES, UNDER WATER AND OPEN TO AIR
  5. 10. - WARM, SEASONAL RAINFALL, FREQUENT FIRES, GRASSY AREA WITH ISOLATED TREES.
  6. 11. - ZONE OF SHALLOW WATER TO THE CONTINENTAL SHELF, PHOTIC
  7. 16. - HOT SUMMERS AND COLD WINTERS, FERTILE SOIL, MANY GRASSES, FEW TREES
  8. 17. - ECOSYSTEM IN WHICH WATER COVERS THE SOIL OR IS PRESENT AT OR NEAR THE SURFACE. NUTRIENT RICH, HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE, BOG, MARSH, SWAMP
Down
  1. 1. - RAINY SEASONS FOLLOWED BY PROLONGED DROUGHT. WARM YEAR ROUND. WAXY LEAF PLANTS
  2. 3. - ABUNDANT PRECIPITATION, COOL DRY SUMMER, ROCKY SOILS, CONIFERS
  3. 5. - WARM DRY SUMMER AND COOL MOIST WINTER, PERIODIC FIRES, WOODY CHAPARRAL PLANTS, SHRUBS
  4. 7. - FERTILE SOILS RICH IN HUMUS, DECIDUOUS TREES, WIDE TEMPERATURE RANGE
  5. 8. - DENSE BOREAL FORESTS OF CONIFERS, LONG COLD WINTERS AND MILD SUMMER, NUTRIENT POOR SOIL
  6. 12. - PERMAFROST, STRONG WINDS, LOW PRECIPITATION, LONG COLD DARK WINTERS, MIGRATIONS IN WINTER
  7. 13. - WETLAND WHERE FRESH AND SALT WATER MEET. SPAWNING AND NURSERY GROUND FOR MANY FISH AND SHELLFISH
  8. 14. - LOW PRECIPITATION,POOR IN ORGANIC MATERIALS, CACTI, NIGHT ACTIVITY ONLY
  9. 15. - 90% OF THE OCEAN, CONTAINS ALL PHOTIC AND APHOTIC ZONES