CHARACTERISTICS OF BIOMES

3. The quality or degree of how much salt a body of water has.
5. A naturally occurring community of plants and animals occupying a major habitat.
6. The part of the surface and atmosphere of the earth occupied by living organisms.
8. The act of taking land away from someone by force for military or economic reasons.
9. A large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties.
10. A state of balance between continuing processes.
12. The amount of light that gets reflected off an object as a percentage.
14. The unit of measurement for air pressure.
15. Method of growing crops on sides of hills or mountains by planting on graduated terraces built into the slope.
18. The weather conditions in a certain area in general or over a long period of time.
21. A line on a map connecting points having the same atmospheric pressure at a given time or on average over a given period.
23. Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area across a sequence of growing seasons.
24. Electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sun.
25. The business sector encompassing farming and farming-related commercial activities.
26. The angular distance of a place from the Earth’s equator expressed in degrees and minutes.
27. A biological community of living organisms and their surrounding environment.

1. Relating to or derived from living matter.
2. The ability to be maintained at a certain level.
4. The flow of nutrients in the same biome.
5. The variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat.
7. A disease or condition found among a particular people or in a certain area.
11. The supply of water to land or crops to help growth.
13. Foods that come from organisms whose DNA has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally.
16. The cultivation of aquatic plants or animals for food.
17. Also known as the water cycle is the flow of water on Earth.
19. The process of growing a single crop in a given area.
20. A farming technique in which arable land is left without sowing for one or more vegetative cycles.
22. The amount of food produced by a certain business or farm.