Across
- 3. a biogeochemical cycle that involves the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth. The mass of water on Earth remains fairly constant over time
- 4. It is colorless, odorless, non-toxic, and highly combustible. Constituting about 75% of all normal matter, hydrogen is the most abundant chemical element in the universe.
- 6. any body of water above ground, including streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, reservoirs, and creeks.
- 8. a mineral that makes up 1% of a person's total body weight.
- 13. the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers
- 15. a microbial process by which reduced nitrogen compounds (primarily ammonia) are sequentially oxidized to nitrite and nitrate
- 16. a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.
- 17. colourless, odourless, tasteless gas essential to living organisms
Down
- 1. the loss or removal of nitrogen or nitrogen compounds
- 2. nature's way of reusing carbon atoms, which travel from the atmosphere into organisms in the Earth and then back into the atmosphere over and over again.
- 5. conversion of a substance from the solid to the gaseous state without its becoming liquid
- 7. water that exists underground in saturated zones beneath the land surface
- 9. happens when a liquid turns into a gas
- 10. water which collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it
- 11. nonmetallic chemical element in Group 14 (IVa) of the periodic table
- 12. the biogeochemical cycle by which nitrogen is converted into multiple chemical forms as it circulates among atmospheric, terrestrial, and marine ecosystems
- 14. drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets, graupel and hail
