Across
- 4. underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeable or fractured rock, or of unconsolidated materials.
- 8. when a liquid turns into a gas.
- 10. inversion layer in the atmosphere in which air temperature increases with height.
- 11. organic matter used as a fuel, especially in a power station for the generation of electricity.
- 14. usable power
- 16. cut down and remove every tree from an area
- 17. relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.
- 18. to not exist
- 19. the process of burning something.
- 20. a rising of seawater, magma, or other liquid.
- 24. allow animals to graze (an area, such as a pasture) to the point of damaging vegetational cove
- 25. a method used to extract natural gas and oil from deep rock formations known as shale
- 27. rain precipitation that is unusually acidic
- 28. symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved.
- 29. a group of fibrous minerals used to strengthen and fireproof materials.
Down
- 1. smog a mixture of pollutants that are formed when nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) react to sunlight, creating a brown haze above cities
- 2. the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers
- 3. physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
- 5. the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.
- 6. the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water
- 7. the change in the characteristics of a species over several generations
- 8. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- 9. make or form (sloping land) into a number of level flat areas resembling a series of steps.
- 12. electricity generated from hydropower
- 13. surface organic layer of a soil that consists of partially decomposed organic matter, derived mostly from plant materia
- 15. a microbial process by which reduced nitrogen compounds (primarily ammonia) are sequentially oxidized to nitrite and nitrate
- 21. the role an organism plays in a community
- 22. energy from heat within the earth
- 23. a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
- 26. radioactive gas that has no smell, colour or taste.
