Crossword Puzzle - Ecology II
Across
- 4. When water molecules excite and become a gas called water vapor
- 6. trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
- 8. biogeochemical cycle that describes the movement of phosphorus through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere
- 10. process in which organisms combine oxygen with food to break down and divert into energy
- 11. Gaseous element present in the atmosphere represented by the letter O
- 13. Refers to the progressively warming temperatures due to pollution and climate change
- 14. having a lower osmotic pressure than a particular fluid
- 16. Circulation of nitrogen including fixation nitrification assimilation etc.
- 17. what you exhale when you breathe or what plants take in when they exhale oxygen
- 18. Process in which producers go through using solar energy to produce their own food and energy
- 19. when water molecules in clouds become heavy and fall to the ground in forms of rain, snow, sleet or hail etc.
- 20. The cycle of water through the environment from evaporation to precipitation to runoff
Down
- 1. Common sugar that is produced by photosynthesis
- 2. Refers to the progressing changes in climate on earth
- 3. When water molecules from water vapor form on surfaces in little droplets or into clouds
- 5. term used to describe solutions and chemistry and muscles
- 7. the amount of carbon dioxide and other carbon compounds emitted due to the consumption of fossil fuels by a particular person, group and other such things
- 9. The membrane around a cell that controls what goes in and out of the cell
- 12. having a higher osmotic pressure than a particular fluid
- 15. Circulation of carbon including photosynthesis decomposition respiration and combustion