Across
- 6. Fungi and bacteria that break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients
- 7. Describes an ecosystem that exists on land
- 10. Coastal area where freshwater mixes with ocean saltwater
- 17. Community of living things interacting with each other and their nonliving environment
- 18. Process performed by bees and insects that is listed as a regulating service
- 19. Water that is a mixture of fresh and salt water
- 20. Warm ecosystem with seasonal rainfall, grasses, scattered trees, and shrubs
Down
- 1. Benefits humans receive from nature
- 2. Forest ecosystem with mild to moderate climate and four distinct seasons
- 3. Describes trees such as pine, spruce, and fir that dominate taiga forests
- 4. Frozen ground found in the tundra
- 5. Non-material benefits people receive from nature
- 8. Services involving natural processes that regulate the environment
- 9. Services involving things obtained directly from nature
- 11. It means "North Wind"
- 12. Cold, treeless ecosystem found in Arctic regions and high mountains
- 13. The amount of saltiness in an aquatic ecosystem
- 14. One of the four distinct seasons experienced by temperate forests
- 15. Linear sequence showing how energy flows from one organism to another
- 16. Land where soil is saturated with water for part or all of the year