Global Systems

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Across
  1. 3. A colourless gas that is a greenhouse gas forming most of the earth's atmosphere.
  2. 7. The interactions of organisms in a environment with the biotic and biotic factors of that environment.
  3. 10. The process plants use to convert the sun's light into chemical energy to create a sugar of which the plant can break down and use.
  4. 15. The discharge of substance or gases into the environment and atmosphere.
  5. 18. The interaction of Earth's regions and all the living things in those regions.
  6. 19. cycle The process of carbon recycled through Earth's environment.
  7. 21. The outer layer of Earth composing of the upper mantle and crust.
  8. 23. A wave length on the radio region of the spectrum that is long.
  9. 25. A greenhouse gas that is colourless and has a chemical formula of CH4.
  10. 27. Fuels composed of natural, organic material and matter.
Down
  1. 1. effect The process of thermal energy (radiation) absorbed by gases which emit the absorbed energy into the atmosphere which then warms the Earth.
  2. 2. A type of energy that is transmitted in waves and particles.
  3. 4. A process within the water cycle in which water vapour turns into liquid.
  4. 5. A process of the water cycle in which water is heated by the sun and becomes water vapour.
  5. 6. The water layer of the Earth consisting of all the water on Earth.
  6. 8. A term used to describe the constant circulation movement of the ocean which is influenced by the salinity levels and seal level temperatures.
  7. 9. A major procedure that includes the clearing/logging of forests for urbanisation, farming land and wood uses.
  8. 11. Periods of warm and mild climate between glaciations that last for thousands of years.
  9. 12. fuel A fuel composed of stored carbon from the preserved bodies of dead organisms.
  10. 13. Regions of Earth where the ground level temperature stays below freezing point or at 0 °C.
  11. 14. A region of the electromagnetic spectrum of which the wave length is greater than the end of the red region but shorter than a microwave wave length.
  12. 16. A series of thin gas layers surrounding the Earth.
  13. 17. sheet A layer of ice containing fresh water and it covers many regions on Earth and is formed through the build up of snow for millions of years.
  14. 20. The measurement of weather patterns and averages of an environment/area over a period of time.
  15. 22. Resources or methods that can be recycled and re used again without harming the Earth.
  16. 24. The day to day conditions of an environment, it occurs in the troposphere.
  17. 26. niño A phase of varying warmer weather conditions and patterns of ocean currents in the Pacific ocean causing over the average weather in many places.