Across
- 2. A colourless gas that is a greenhouse gas forming most of the earth's atmosphere.
- 5. The interaction of Earth's regions and all the living things in those regions.
- 6. niño A phase of varying warmer weather conditions and patterns of ocean currents in the Pacific ocean causing over the average weather in many places.
- 8. cycle The process of carbon recycled through Earth's environment.
- 9. The water layer of the Earth consisting of all the water on Earth.
- 11. A process within the water cycle in which water vapour turns into liquid.
- 12. A process of the water cycle in which water is heated by the sun and becomes water vapour.
- 13. A greenhouse gas that is colourless and has a chemical formula of CH4.
- 14. A major procedure that includes the clearing/logging of forests for urbanisation, farming land and wood uses.
- 17. The discharge of substance or gases into the environment and atmosphere.
- 18. Fuels composed of natural, organic material and matter.
- 20. A type of energy that is transmitted in waves and particles.
- 21. The day to day conditions of an environment, it occurs in the troposphere.
- 22. The outer layer of Earth composing of the upper mantle and crust.
- 23. The measurement of weather patterns and averages of an environment/area over a period of time.
- 25. A series of thin gas layers surrounding the Earth.
- 26. fuel A fuel composed of stored carbon from the preserved bodies of dead organisms.
- 27. A region of the electromagnetic spectrum of which the wave length is greater than the end of the red region but shorter than a microwave wave length.
Down
- 1. A wave length on the radio region of the spectrum that is long.
- 3. The process plants use to convert the sun's light into chemical energy to create a sugar of which the plant can break down and use.
- 4. A term used to describe the constant circulation movement of the ocean which is influenced by the salinity levels and seal level temperatures.
- 7. effect The process of thermal energy (radiation) absorbed by gases which emit the absorbed energy into the atmosphere which then warms the Earth.
- 10. Resources or methods that can be recycled and re used again without harming the Earth.
- 15. The interactions of organisms in a environment with the biotic and biotic factors of that environment.
- 16. Periods of warm and mild climate between glaciations that last for thousands of years.
- 19. sheet A layer of ice containing fresh water and it covers many regions on Earth and is formed through the build up of snow for millions of years.
- 24. Regions of Earth where the ground level temperature stays below freezing point or at 0 °C.