Across
- 3. The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth
- 5. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
- 6. A group of atoms bonded together, representing the smallest fundamental unit of a chemical compound
- 8. A giant cloud of dust and gas in space
- 12. The process used by plants to convert light energy into chemical energy
- 14. A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state
- 15. A plastid in green plant cells which contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place
- 16. When the sun reaches its highest or lowest excursion in the sky, marking the longest or shortest day
Down
- 1. Any of the world's main continuous expanses of land
- 2. The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet
- 4. A rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object that allows hot lava and volcanic ash to escape
- 7. The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to develop from earlier forms
- 9. The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth occupied by living organisms
- 10. A extensive group of islands
- 11. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
- 13. The resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another
