This Week's Vocabulary
Across
- 3. A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms
- 4. Describes any living part of the environment with which an organism might interact
- 8. One of four earth systems - it includes all the gases that surround Earth
- 9. A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area
- 12. One of four earth systems - it includes all living organisms and the environments they live in.
- 13. One of four earth systems - it consists of all Earth’s fresh water and salt water, including water vapor and rain in the atmosphere, water underground, and ice
- 14. The trapping of heat within the earth’s atmosphere by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor
Down
- 1. One of four earth systems - includes all the “usually solid stuff” - rocks, continents, and the ocean floor. Deep inside Earth, portions of the geosphere are liquid.
- 2. Short-term, day-to-day changes in the atmosphere’s winds, clouds, precipitation, and temperature.
- 5. An assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area
- 6. What the weather is like over a long period of time in a specific area
- 7. All of the organisms that live in a place, together with their physical environment
- 10. Describes any nonliving part of the environment with which an organism might interact, such as sunlight, heat, precipitation, humidity, wind or water currents, and soil type
- 11. A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring