Across
- 3. processes that either amplify or reduce climatic trends, toward either warming or cooling
- 5. also known as climate forcing
- 7. portions of the crust that are entirely below sea level
- 9. a biome also known as the northern needleleaf forest
- 12. a conceptual model to help understand the theory of habitat fragmentation
- 15. sharp release of energy that occurs at the moment of fracture
- 16. also known as the Circum-Pacific belt
- 17. any process that wears away or rearranges landforms
- 18. weathering by dissolution of limestone landscapes creates this; also known as dolines
- 19. scientific study of sequences dealing with superposition
- 20. species that are introduced to a new environment by humans
Down
- 1. also known as mechanical weathering
- 2. calcium carbonate (CaCO3) mineral deposits that are found in caves and caverns
- 4. large,stable,terrestrial, or aquatic ecosystem
- 6. structure of Earth's crust containing an opening that magma rises from
- 8. technique that uses the atomic structure of chemical elements to determine chemical composition of oceans and ice masses
- 10. theory on how the building mountains and seismic activity causes earthquakes
- 11. most common chemical sedimentary rock
- 13. processes that operate at Earth's interior, driven by heat and radioactive decay
- 14. decomposition of a chemical compound by reaction with water