Environmental Science Quiz

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Across
  1. 6. Fungi and bacteria that break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients
  2. 7. Describes an ecosystem that exists on land
  3. 10. Coastal area where freshwater mixes with ocean saltwater
  4. 17. Community of living things interacting with each other and their nonliving environment
  5. 18. Process performed by bees and insects that is listed as a regulating service
  6. 19. Water that is a mixture of fresh and salt water
  7. 20. Warm ecosystem with seasonal rainfall, grasses, scattered trees, and shrubs
Down
  1. 1. Benefits humans receive from nature
  2. 2. Forest ecosystem with mild to moderate climate and four distinct seasons
  3. 3. Describes trees such as pine, spruce, and fir that dominate taiga forests
  4. 4. Frozen ground found in the tundra
  5. 5. Non-material benefits people receive from nature
  6. 8. Services involving natural processes that regulate the environment
  7. 9. Services involving things obtained directly from nature
  8. 11. It means "North Wind"
  9. 12. Cold, treeless ecosystem found in Arctic regions and high mountains
  10. 13. The amount of saltiness in an aquatic ecosystem
  11. 14. One of the four distinct seasons experienced by temperate forests
  12. 15. Linear sequence showing how energy flows from one organism to another
  13. 16. Land where soil is saturated with water for part or all of the year