Across
- 3. a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
- 6. the study of the shape and features of the land's surface, including its ups and downs
- 9. solid, liquid, and gas
- 11. heat-driven cycles that form in the air and ocean
- 13. imaginary line through the center of the Earth
- 14. the movement of energy from one place or object to another
- 15. living things within an ecosystem
- 17. the process of changing energy from one form to another
Down
- 1. energy can neither be created nor destroyed - only converted from one form of energy to another
- 2. A hurricane is a type of storm called a tropical cyclone, which forms over tropical or subtropical waters.
- 4. one complete turn of the Earth.
- 5. the action or state of making or being made impure by polluting or poisoning.
- 7. a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between species in an ecosystem.
- 8. one complete orbit around the sun
- 10. a storm that produces lightning and thunder and is often accompanied by heavy rain and strong winds
- 12. non-living parts of an ecosystem
- 16. path a planet follows around the sun. It is oval shaped
