ECOSYSTEM: Composed of all the biotic and abiotic components THERMODYNAMICS: The study of energy GROUNDWATER: A significant subsurface reservoir of fresh water ABIOTIC: Non-living chemical and physical factors ENVIRONMENT: Everything that affects an orga

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Across
  1. 3. Excessive plant and algal growth
  2. 6. Process that takes away mineral components from selling water
  3. 8. Type of service that are often invisible and therefore mostly taken for granted
  4. 11. Study of past and present distributions of individual species and ecosystems in geographic space
  5. 13. Etymological origin of the word science
  6. 14. Second most abundant element in organisms, by mass
  7. 15. An essential element for the molecules of living things
  8. 20. The study of energy
  9. 22. Water inside living things
  10. 23. Occurs when we use our senses or an extension of our senses to record an event
  11. 26. Widely accepted, plausible generalization about fundamental concepts in science
  12. 27. A mineral constituent of bones and teeth
  13. 28. Consist of all the organisms of all the species that inhabit in a particular area
  14. 29. Predicts how an event will occur under specific circumstances
Down
  1. 1. Outer mantle of the solid earth
  2. 2. Reservoir is Earth's crust
  3. 4. Advocacy for the protection or preservation of the natural environment
  4. 5. Ecology that is concerned with the behavioral, psychological, and morphological ways individuals interact with the environment
  5. 7. reservoir is the air of the oceans
  6. 9. A significant subsurface reservoir of fresh water
  7. 10. Everything that affects an organism during its lifetime
  8. 11. All living organisms
  9. 12. A group of individuals of the same species living in the particular area
  10. 16. Study of the interactions between life and its physical environment
  11. 17. Common name for algal blooms
  12. 18. Where life operates
  13. 19. A process where sulfur can also fall directly from the atmosphere
  14. 21. Composed of all the biotic and abiotic components
  15. 24. Non-living chemical and physical factors
  16. 25. When bacteria converts the nitrates into nitrogen gas, thus allowing it to re-enter the atmosphere