Across
- 5. "address" where an organism naturally lives
- 6. uncontrolled fire that spreads rapidly across landscapes such as forests, grasslands
- 7. long-term average of weather patterns in a specific region over an extended period of time
- 8. community of living organisms interacting with one another and with their non-living environment
- 9. living or once-living organism,
- 10. biological classification consisting of individuals capable of interbreeding and producing offspring
- 11. an individual living entity
- 14. measure of how warm or cold the surrounding atmosphere is at a specific location and time
- 15. any form of liquid that condenses in the atmosphere and falls to Earth
Down
- 1. cold, treeless biome with low temperatures, low-growing vegetation, and a layer of permafrost
- 2. refers to matter that derive from living organisms
- 3. group of the same species that live and interact in a specific geographic area
- 4. variety and variability of life on Earth
- 9. major regional ecological community characterized by distinctive climate and vegetation
- 12. aquatic environment with high salinity such as an ocean, coral reef, or estuary
- 13. subarctic biome characterized by long, cold winters and vast coniferous forests