Environmental Systems- Biomes Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. describes living factors in the environment
  2. 5. Web a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains.
  3. 6. Biome the biome is characterized by rich soil, moderate rainfall, a hot, dry climate, thick grasses, and herds of grazing animals.
  4. 10. an organism that can make its own food.
  5. 11. an animal that hunts other animals for food.
  6. 12. all the different populations that live together in an area.
  7. 14. Biome aquatic biome such as a pond, lake, stream, or river in which the water contains little or no salt.
  8. 16. Rainforest Biome forests in which rainfall is abundant- more than 200 cm per year- and temperatures are warm or hot year-round.
  9. 18. Biome largest biome, most stable with little variation in temperature, provides most of the earth's food and oxygen.
  10. 19. Biome coniferous forests (pine trees) that have long, cold winters. The trees have needles instead of broad leaves.
  11. 21. Forest Biome a biome with four seasons, plants shed leaves in the fall and grow new ones in the spring.
  12. 22. animal that is hunted or caught for food.
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  1. 1. Biome a grassland biome that often has scattered trees and that is found in tropical and subtropical areas where seasonal rains, fires, and drought happen.
  2. 2. process by which plants and some other organisms use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high-energy sugars and starches.
  3. 3. Chain a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
  4. 7. all the interactions with the biotic and abiotic factors of its environment.
  5. 8. a group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
  6. 9. Consumer consumer that feeds directly on producers.
  7. 13. natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
  8. 15. Biome a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.
  9. 17. physical rather than biological; describes all of the non-living things in the environment.
  10. 20. Biome a biome that has little or no plant life, long periods without rain, and extreme temperatures; usually found in hot climates.