Crossword Puzzle - Ecology II

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