Across
- 6. A period of abnormally dry weather long enough to cause serious shortages of water for other needs in the affected area.
- 7. a slowly moving mass of ice.
- 8. The complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors that act upon an organism.
- 11. A green house gas that absorbs and radiates heat.
- 13. The specific condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.
- 15. A wave of unusually hot weather.
Down
- 1. The state of being polluted.
- 2. The rays of the sun.
- 3. the regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole.
- 4. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment.
- 5. is the only planet on which water in liquid form exists, covering more than 70 percent of its surface.
- 8. The complex of a community of organisms and the community's environment functioning as an ecological unit.
- 9. Coal, oil, and natural gas.
- 10. A large area of water between continents.
- 12. dependent on temperature; they are related to, or caused by, heat.
- 14. A state of matter that has no fixed shape and no fixed volume.
- 15. The place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows.
