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