Earth Science

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Across
  1. 4. branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
  2. 5. Energy is the capacity for doing work. It may exist in potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuclear, or other forms.
  3. 8. The six-step model in which a scientist uses to evaluate something: 1. asking a question 2. Background research 3. Constructing a hypothesis 4. Test hypothesis 5. analysis 6. Conclusion
  4. 10. Convection is the rising motion of warmer areas of a liquid or gas, and the sinking motion of cooler areas of liquid or gas, sometimes forming a complete cycle.
  5. 11. The rock cycle is a concept used to explain how the three basic rock types are related and how Earth processes, over geologic time, change a rock from one type into another.
  6. 12. They are unable to create their own energy, so they eat other organisms.
  7. 15. In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravitational pull from clouds.
Down
  1. 1. The responsibility we possess to preserve natural resources and protect ecosystems.
  2. 2. Evaporation is the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas or vapor.
  3. 3. Make their own food most likely plants.
  4. 6. In biology, an identification key, taxonomic key, or biological key is a printed or computer-aided device that aids the identification of biological entities, such as plants, animals, fossils, microorganisms, and pollen grains.
  5. 7. The father products travel the more fuel which is consumed. Which contributes to climate change and global warming.
  6. 9. A group of interacting species living in the same area.
  7. 13. A renewable resource is one that can be used repeatedly and does not run out because it is naturally replaced.
  8. 14. Upwelling is an oceanographic phenomenon that involves wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water from deep water towards the ocean surface.