Chapter 15 Vocabulary
Across
- 1. The upper most branches of trees in the rain forest
- 2. very dry, or arid climate all year around
- 6. exists in cold nutrient rich climate waters
- 9. tropical climate zone that is very hot
- 10. a climate of a small specific place
- 12. phontosynthetic plankton
- 14. The air blanketing of Earth's sold and liquid surfaces
- 16. also known as boreal forest and is a cool climate
- 17. extends from the neritic zone to the base of the continental shelf
- 18. Is the part of the earth where life exists
- 19. animal plankton
- 20. extends from the intertidal zone out to the continental shelf
Down
- 1. also called the mediterranean shrubland and has hot dry summers as well cool most winters
- 2. These trees have adapted to winter temperatures
- 3. beyond the Taiga and winter lasts 10 months a year
- 4. lies below 2000 meeters and is in compleat darkness
- 5. The features of Earth's serface
- 7. is an area where the primary plant life is grass
- 8. all of Earth's water,water vapor, and ice
- 11. is the strip of land between high and low tide lines
- 13. these trees retain their needles all winter and all year long
- 15. are tiny free floating organisms that live in water
- 18. is the collectionif living things in the biosphere
- 21. The long term pattern of weather conditions in a region