Across
- 4. Storm with high winds and low visibility due to wind-blown snow.
- 5. This Michigan city went several years without clean potable drinking water.
- 6. _____ Farms are large industrialized farm with lots livestock are raised in conditions intended to maximize production at minimal cost.
- 7. Your science teachers name!
- 8. Country with the largest human population!
- 9. ___ ocean waters are what give hurricanes their energy and cause them to grow stronger.
- 11. The calm low-pressured center of a hurricane
- 18. Like a hurricane but located in the Pacific Ocean.
- 19. ______ Science is the study of living organisms and how they interact with our surroundings.
- 20. Conservation method of decreasing the amount of waste we create
- 23. F5 hurricane that infamously hit New Orleans in 2005, holds the record for most destructive hurricane in history!
- 24. A wind system that rotates around a low pressure center
- 26. Population _____ is how many people there are per unit of space.
- 28. Diets that include ___ are more resource intensive than vegetarian diets.
- 29. physical environment in which a species lives and to which it has become adapted
Down
- 1. Process where water falls from the atmosphere in any form (e.g. Rain, snow, sleet).
- 2. There are just short of ___ Billion humans on Earth!
- 3. _____ Capacity is the largest population size of a species that can be supported by the environment.
- 7. Ocean garbage ______ are large collections of trash and debris floating in the middle of the ocean. Some are roughly the size of Texas!
- 10. Conservation method of changing waste material into a new material for other uses.
- 12. Using the same item again for either the same or new function as a method of conservation.
- 13. Continent with the most people on it.
- 14. What the temperature feels like when wind is taken into account.
- 15. Period of prolonged excessively hot weather for a region(2 words).
- 16. Where the United States ranks in world population
- 17. Where humans get their energy from.
- 21. When an area receives less precipitation than normal for an extended period of time.
- 22. violently rotating funnel cloud that grows downward from a cloud.
- 25. This U.S. State has experience several major widespread wildfires in recent years.
- 27. If the frozen polar features completely melted global sea level would rise over 200ft.!