Across
- 2. P
- 6. a worldwide, major environmental concern caused by the excessive amount of CO2 in the atmosphere
- 8. process used to obtain drinkable water from the ocean
- 10. animals and plants both do this, uses glucose and oxygen
- 11. the most abundant element in living things
- 12. ammonia plus oxygen creates this compound used by plants and made into fertilizer
- 18. element of life that is released in rock weathering
- 20. organisms such as bacteria and fungi that break down waste and dead organisms
- 21. global climate change is driven mostly by carbon ___
- 22. 78% of our atmosphere
- 23. the main oxygen generators of the biosphere
Down
- 1. plants do this to make glucose and oxygen
- 3. contains 97% of the biosphere's water
- 4. name of bacterium that can fix nitrogen
- 5. beginning of this revolution is marked by the rise in use of fossil fuels
- 7. the second most abundant element in living things
- 9. the powerhouse of the cell
- 13. produce their own food molecules from sunlight
- 14. means non-living
- 15. ATP is adenosine tri____
- 16. C6H12O6
- 17. coal, natural gas, petroleum are ___ fuels
- 18. which contains nitrogen, carbohydrate or protein
- 19. ocean acidification can result in ___ bleaching
