Earth's cycles

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Across
  1. 4. the movement of carbon throughout the environment throughout biotic and abiotic factors
  2. 6. water is released from plant leaves
  3. 8. living thing
  4. 10. also called the water cycle; water goes through 5 processes simultaneously: condensation, evapotranspiration, infiltration, runoff, precipitation
  5. 12. transformation cycle of phosphorus through the soil, water, and organisms
  6. 14. used to stimulate maximum plant growth
  7. 16. repeating cycle where nitrogen moves through both biotic and abiotic factors
Down
  1. 1. coal, oil, and natural gas; stores carbon from the bodies of long dead organisms
  2. 2. the gaseous form of water
  3. 3. an increase in Earth's temperature due in part to burning fossil fuels
  4. 4. the process by which water vapor turns into a liquid
  5. 5. the process by which liquid water turns into vapor
  6. 7. organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms; they help replenish the nitrogen in the environment
  7. 9. water falls from the sky to earths surface in forms like rain, snow, sleet, etc.
  8. 11. organisms that obtain carbon from the carbohydrates they eat
  9. 13. organisms that convert atmospheric carbon (carbon dioxide) to carbohydrates
  10. 15. water flows throughout the land and into larger bodies of water like the ocean