Science Crossword : 2nd Period
Across
- 4. Shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level in an ecosystem.
- 5. Features of the environment.
- 6. A mixture of organic remains, clay, and rock particles.
- 7. The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere, of the earth occupied by living organisms.
- 8. Physical rather than not derived from living organisms.
- 11. The chemical processes by which atmosphere nitrogen is assimilated into organic compounds especially by certain microorganisms as part of the nitrogen cycle.
- 16. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- 17. How molecules move between the living and nonliving world.
- 18. The cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation.
Down
- 1. Area's average weather conditions over time, including temperature, rainfall or other precipitation, and wind.
- 2. The production of energy rich nutrient molecules from chemicals.
- 3. Process of changing from a gas to a liquid.
- 9. The series of processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are interconverted in the environment and in living organisms, including nitrogen fixation and decomposition.
- 10. The changing of liquid into a gas.
- 12. The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
- 13. Air that surrounds Earth.
- 14. A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
- 15. The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- 17. A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.