Across
- 1. the place where an organism lives
- 4. all the members of a species that live in an ecosystem
- 5. the typical weather pattern in an environment
- 8. a cold, dry biome without trees
- 9. the nonliving things in an environment
- 12. a biome where the main kind of plant is grasses
- 14. the living things in an environment
- 15. an ecosystem where the roots of plants grow beneath the water
- 16. a large ecosystem that has its own kinds of plants, animals, and soil
- 19. the dense layer of leaves beneath the canopy
- 20. a biome that has trees that lose their leaves each year
Down
- 2. a hot and humid biome with plenty of rainfall near the Earth's equator
- 3. a cool forest biome in the upper regions of the north
- 5. spreads over the forest like a huge umbrella
- 6. the biotic and abiotic factors in an environment make up an ____________
- 7. all the populations in an ecosystem make up a __________________
- 10. a grassland with shrubs and a few trees
- 11. a kind of grassland with a mild climate
- 13. an ecosystem where ocean and freshwater ecosystems meet
- 17. the lowest part of a forest
- 18. a barren biome with very little rainfall
