This Week's Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms
  2. 4. Describes any living part of the environment with which an organism might interact
  3. 8. One of four earth systems - it includes all the gases that surround Earth
  4. 9. A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area
  5. 12. One of four earth systems - it includes all living organisms and the environments they live in.
  6. 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
  7. 14. The trapping of heat within the earth’s atmosphere by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor
Down
  1. 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. 2. Short-term, day-to-day changes in the atmosphere’s winds, clouds, precipitation, and temperature.
  3. 5. An assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area
  4. 6. What the weather is like over a long period of time in a specific area
  5. 7. All of the organisms that live in a place, together with their physical environment
  6. 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
  7. 11. A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring