Across
- 4. A green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis.
- 6. A part of a whole, usually expressed with a numerator and a denominator.
- 7. The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet.
- 9. The angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object.
- 11. An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
- 13. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- 14. A massive system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter.
- 15. A set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed.
Down
- 1. The highest legislative authority in many countries, typically composed of a lower and upper house.
- 2. A community of living organisms interacting with their environment
- 3. The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- 5. An animal that naturally preys on others.
- 8. Balanced proportions; the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.
- 10. A number expressed in the scale of tens, often used in mathematics to represent fractions.
- 12. A mountain or hill with a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth’s crust.