Outdoor Unit 3

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Across
  1. 1. - the geographic location based on direction faced, soil moisture, temperatures and soil type
  2. 5. - evaporated water from plants
  3. 6. - an organism that decomposes or breaks down dead or decaying organisms, returning the nutrients to the earth
  4. 7. - the significant lasting change in weather patterns over an extended period of time, natural disasters, coral bleaching, extinction
  5. 8. - born in water with gills to breathe but when older they develop lungs and can breathe out of water
  6. 9. - the number and variety of organisms (flora and fauna) found within a specified area. This will be determined by the factors of climate, geology and position and aspect. The variability among living organisms from all sources, including diversity within species and entire ecosystems
  7. 11. - movement of water through the ground to the water table
  8. 12. - deposits of petroleum, coal or natural gas, accumulated from ancient animals and plants
  9. 13. - what happens during the day and night and how that changes an ecosystem
  10. 19. - exchanging carbon dioxide for oxygen
  11. 21. - animal drinks milk from mother, births live young
  12. 23. - gain energy from eating a variety of sources
  13. 24. - animals that don’t have a backbone
  14. 26. - movement and change from water from a liquid to a vapour into the atmosphere
  15. 27. - movement of water across the surface into water storages or ways
  16. 28. - the rise and fall of sea levels, caused by a combined effect of the gravitational forces exerted by the moon, sun and the rotation of the earth
  17. 31. - process by which plants and some bacteria use the energy from sunlight to produce glucose and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water
  18. 33. - animals that have a backbone
  19. 35. - any animal that has more than 4 joined legs (insects and spiders)
  20. 39. - consumes plant based materials
  21. 40. - a prolonged, abnormally dry period when the amount of available water is insufficient to meet our normal use, doesn’t mean low rainfall, it is measured by the availability of water
  22. 43. - a specific place within an ecosystem occupied by an organism or population
  23. 46. - the living organisms in an ecosystem
  24. 47. - lays eggs but has no pouch, excretes milk through the skin
  25. 48. - consumes animals
  26. 51. - climatic change and movements in the earth's crust can cause large scale natural changes to occur, some biotic and abiotic factors can result in sudden changes (natural disasters)
  27. 54. - individual plants and animals consistently grow, develop, reproduce, die and decompose
  28. 55. - carnivores or omnivores, gain energy from eating herbivores
  29. 57. - cold blooded with scaly skin
  30. 58. - capture sunlight and convert it to energy via photosynthesis
  31. 59. - an interrelationship which demonstrates the flow of energy being passed from the sun to the producer to the consumer in order of hierarchy
  32. 60. - air
Down
  1. 2. - bacteria changing nitrogen in soil to a usable form, plants use this to build proteins
  2. 3. - the prevailing weather conditions of a region including annual rainfall, extremes in temperature, daylight hours, frost and snow and droughts and floods.
  3. 4. - waste and dead organisms decompose and release nitrates into the soil, bacteria then breaks this down and releases it into the air as gas
  4. 10. - herbivores, gaining energy from eating producers
  5. 14. - the physiological process that enables animals to exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide
  6. 15. - the ecosystems present in a location(s)
  7. 16. - when a community establishes itself where it has never been before. Eg. volcano, sand dune, glacier, introduced species
  8. 17. - born from a shell, have feathers
  9. 18. - one type of community can succeed another type. Natural changes in our plant communities are often referred to as a plant succession and result in vegetation being able to establish itself in an area without major disturbance
  10. 20. - consumes both plants and animals
  11. 22. - day/night, seasons, tides, flood, drought
  12. 25. - the species present in an ecosystem eg lizards, possums, wombats, frogs and echidnas
  13. 29. - soil, the Earth's crust and core
  14. 30. - the non living things in an ecosystem
  15. 32. - water released from the clouds as rain
  16. 34. - when a community that develops over time is similar to that of the original. Eg. fire, flood
  17. 36. - diversity within a species. Eg. how many different types of frogs
  18. 37. - from the highest mountain to the deepest ocean and everything in between, includes all forms of life on earth including their interactions
  19. 38. - the decaying processes releasing CO2 into the atmosphere
  20. 41. - water, oceans, icecaps, vapour
  21. 42. - the history and structure of the earth, can be seen in the rock material found in the location, soil characteristics, drainage and topography
  22. 44. - the formation of water droplets to form clouds
  23. 45. - a colourless, odourless gas, produced from the burning of fossil fuels
  24. 49. - change in weather patterns, summer, autumn, winter, spring
  25. 50. - a species that moves from one location to another in response to change in habitat, each is only suitable for part of their lives, linked to food availability, climate or breeding seasons
  26. 52. - effects can be devastating, river systems destroyed, habitat loss
  27. 53. - migration, succession, climate change
  28. 56. - vertebrates with gills and scales