Environmental Science

4. Branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
5. Water falls from clouds as rain, snow, or hail.
7. Excess nutrients causing rapid algae growth and low oxygen in water.
12. Science, It seeks to understand natural world.
13. A process where liquid water changes into water vapor.
14. Study of energy
15. Rain, Rain made acidic by sulfur dioxide and other pollutants.
18. Science, Study of people, culture, and society.
22. The process by which plants make food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
23. A group of different species that live and interact with one another in the same geographic area at the same time.
24. Relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.
26. Everything that affects an organism.
29. ability to move things, do work, or transfer heat.
30. Tide, A harmful bloom of algae in water.

1. The process where organisms use oxygen and release carbon dioxide.
2. A place where an element is stored.
3. A group of interacting individuals of the same species living in the same geographic area.
6. Central characteristics of the scientific method.
8. Physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
9. Cycle, The natural recycling of elements between living and non-living things.
10. The release of water vapor from plant leaves.
11. Organized body of knowledge that is obtained by study and experimentation.
16. The scope of the environment that refers to all waters that covers the Earth's surface.
17. The process where bacteria return nitrogen gas to atmosphere.
19. The process of removing salt from seawater to make it drinkable.
20. A process where water vapor cools and forms clouds.
21. Science, Study of interactions among physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment and the solution of environmental problems.
25. Study of past and present distributions of individual species and ecosystems in geographic space and geological time.
27. Fixation, The process of converting nitrogen gas into a form plants can use.
28. Water stored beneath the Earth's surface.