Across
- 2. Erosion, the wearing away of soil by wind, water, or people.
- 4. the natural home of a plant or animal.
- 6. Resources, useful things from nature, like wood, minerals, and water.
- 7. Trees, trees with needle-like leaves and cones, like pine and spruce.
- 9. water-covered areas like swamps, home to many plants and animals.
- 11. how green plants make food using sunlight.
- 12. Forest, a large forest of mostly evergreen trees in northern Canada.
- 14. how an ecosystem changes over time.
- 15. a mix of trees and open grassland between prairie and boreal forest.
- 16. a change that helps a plant or animal survive.
- 17. Chain, a series of living things that depend on each other for food.
- 18. Trees, trees that shed their leaves yearly, like aspen and birch.
- 19. a group of living things interacting with their environment.
Down
- 1. another name for the cold, dense boreal forest.
- 3. ground that stays frozen all year.
- 5. Peoples, the first people to live in a region, like First Nations, Métis, and Inuit in Canada.
- 7. the usual weather in a place over time.
- 8. protecting nature and its resources.
- 10. when animals move from one place to another during seasons.
- 13. the variety of life in a place.