Unit 4 Science Vocab d4Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a process in living organisms involving the production of energy, typically with the intake of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide
  2. 4. an organelle found in large numbers in most cells, in which the biochemical processes of respiration and energy production
  3. 5. rapid chemical combination of a substance with oxygen, involving the production of heat and light.
  4. 6. all the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds
  5. 8. the process by which organisms combine oxygen with foodstuff molecules, diverting
  6. 10. a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms
  7. 11. a forest, ocean, or other natural environment viewed in terms of its ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
  8. 12. a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place
  9. 14. relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations
  10. 16. the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet
  11. 17. Power made from resources that can be use to provide heat light and nutrients
  12. 18. any thing that produces carbon and releases it into the air
  13. 20. A group of words use in a specific language
  14. 22. physical substance in general, as distinct from mind and spirit; (in physics) that which occupies space and possesses rest mass, especially as distinct from energy
  15. 23. any of the almost spherical concentric regions of matter that make up the earth and its atmosphere, as the lithosphere and hydrosphere
Down
  1. 1. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form
  2. 3. a green pigment, present in all green plants thats responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy
  3. 7. a method of cellular respiration that does not require oxygen to generate energy.
  4. 9. A process when a plant synthesizes food from carbon dioxide and water
  5. 12. the chemical element of atomic number 6, a nonmetal which has two main forms (diamond and graphite) and which also occurs in impure form in charcoal, soot, and coal
  6. 13. physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms
  7. 15. the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water
  8. 19. the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms
  9. 21. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle