CROSS Out the WORDS with the Information Provided By the Definitions and Clues (aka: Maryam's Puzzle)
Across
- 1. a collection of stars, dust, and gas bound together by gravity
- 4. describes living factors in the environment
- 6. a relationship between two species in which both species benefit
- 7. an object so massive and dense that even light cannot escape its gravity
- 10. the change of a substance from a liquid to a gas
- 11. all of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other
- 13. a gradual increase in average global temperature (hint: this is one of the reasons for global warming)
- 15. the change of state from a liquid to a gas
- 18. the rate at which charges pass through a given point; measured amperes
- 20. an event in which the shadow of one celestial body falls upon another
- 22. the shallow zone of a lake or pond where light reaches the bottom and nurtures plants
- 23. the distance that light travels in one year
- 26. a natural or artificial body that revolves around a panet
- 28. the change in the sunlit area of one celestial body as seen from another celestial body (hint: the moon goes through phases called___)
- 29. the amount of water vapor in the air
- 30. the energy transferred between objects that at different temperatures (hint: something we long for during the winter)
Down
- 2. a mixture of gases that surrounds a planet or moon
- 3. the part of Earth where life exists
- 5. the time required for Earth to rotate once on its axis
- 8. an instrument used to measure wind speed
- 9. the apparent curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to the Earth's rotation
- 12. a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem
- 14. a tide of minimum range that occurs during the first and third quarters of the moon
- 16. the region of the solar system that is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and in which most asteroids orbit
- 17. a streamlike movement of ocean water far below the surface
- 19. a treeless, wetland ecosystem where plants such as grasses (hint: it's not a biome and it's not a swamp)
- 21. a nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lied long ago (hint: it has a FORM of ENERGY)
- 24. a planet that has a deep, massive atmosphere, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune
- 25. a bright streak of light that results when a meteoroid burns up in the Earth's atmosphere (hint: people think that it's a shooting star)
- 27. a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities