Geography Key Words

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Across
  1. 3. Not living.
  2. 4. Break down plant and animal material and return the nutrients to the soil.
  3. 9. Weather or climate - flooding, tornadoes, tropical storms and droughts.
  4. 10. These are often small-scale ecosystems such as ponds, hedgerows or woodlands.
  5. 11. A region where the land, is in a natural state, where impacts from human activities are minimal. They might also be called a wild or natural area.
  6. 17. The result of primary effects and include tsunamis, fires and landslides.
  7. 18. responses Search and rescue and keeping survivors alive by providing medical care, food, water and shelter.
  8. 19. There are two main sources of nutrients - rainwater washes chemicals out of the atmosphere and weathered rock releases nutrients into the soil. When plants or animals die, the decomposers help to recycle the nutrients making them available once again.
  9. 20. It shows the direct links between organisms in an ecosystem, in the form of a line.
  10. 22. To be able to use something without reducing future generations ability to use it too, it can continue indefinitely.
  11. 24. Across different countries.
  12. 25. Means that the environment should be untouched and humans should not interfere, so ecosystems can find their own balance.
  13. 27. Caused by ground shaking and can include death, injuries and damage to both roads and buildings.
  14. 28. It shows all the connections between organisms in an ecosystem.
Down
  1. 1. Convert energy from the environment into sugars.
  2. 2. Means that natural resources such as timber can still be used, but must be used sustainably.
  3. 5. They are large-scale ecosystems such as tropical rainforests, deciduous woodlands or deserts. They can also be called biomes.
  4. 6. Re-building and reconstruction, with the aim of returning people's lives back to normal and reducing future risk.
  5. 7. A community of plants and animals and the environment in which they live.
  6. 8. Tectonic - earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and mountain avalanches.
  7. 12. The dependence of two or more things onto each other.
  8. 13. Foods used by plants or animals to grow.
  9. 14. Get energy from the sugars produced by the producers.
  10. 15. An event that actively threatens life and property.
  11. 16. risk The chance or risk of being affected by a natural event.
  12. 21. In one smaller area.
  13. 23. Living.
  14. 26. Throughout a whole country.