Climates in the Rain Forests
Across
- 4. plants
- 6. contamination or poisoning of natural resources such as water or soil
- 8. home environment, where something lives
- 10. untouched forests where no development has taken place
- 12. plants, animals, and the environment they inhabit together
- 13. scientists who study the structure of the earth, including its rocks and soils
- 17. gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere, which trap the Sun’s heat and cause global warming
- 19. sink rainforest or plantation that absorbs carbon dioxide in large quantities
- 20. living in a confined conservation area
- 21. range of animals and plants in a particular place
Down
- 1. process by which plants change carbon dioxide and water into food using energy from the Sun
- 2. vitamins and nourishment
- 3. when heat from the sun enters the Earth’s atmosphere and is trapped, heating up the planet
- 5. polluted
- 7. type of weather a place normally gets at different times of the year
- 9. chain feeding relationships between living things
- 11. Average increase in temperature at Earth’s surface
- 14. safe from disease
- 15. deliberate cutting down of forests to use land for grazing or agriculture
- 16. comes from
- 18. leftover