English Puzzle

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  1. 4. A green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis.
  2. 6. A part of a whole, usually expressed with a numerator and a denominator.
  3. 7. The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet.
  4. 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.
  5. 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°.
  6. 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.
  7. 14. A massive system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter.
  8. 15. A set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed.
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  1. 1. The highest legislative authority in many countries, typically composed of a lower and upper house.
  2. 2. A community of living organisms interacting with their environment
  3. 3. The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
  4. 5. An animal that naturally preys on others.
  5. 8. Balanced proportions; the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.
  6. 10. A number expressed in the scale of tens, often used in mathematics to represent fractions.
  7. 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.