Possible Answers

Abiotic Factors

Name:______

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30

31 32 33 34 35 36

Possible Answers:

abiotic, acid, adaptation, biogeochemical, biogeography, biological, biotic, carbon, coldbloodedness, condensation, dispersal, eutrophic, eutrophication, evaporation, evapotranspiration, hibernation, hyperthermia, hypothermia, light, lightenergy, mesotrophic, moisture, nitrogen, oligiotrophic, percolation, phosphorus, photo, photosynthesis, physiological, pollination, precipitation, respiration, shivering, temperature, thermoregulation, tolerance, warmbloodedness, water Across: Down: 3 - This is when water that is so heavy it falls as 1 - Being inactive during winter, and lower liquid / solid. metabolism 5 - Having a body temperature that is to high that 2 - The circulation of carbon from the atmosphere may cause heart failure, among other problems into organisms (biotic) and back again (abiotic). and death (______cycle) 7 - Wind, water, animal, and tension are all types 4 - A common nutrient in nutrient pollution. of seed ______6 - A process whereby an organism becomes 10 - Type of rain that has a lower pH from air better suited to its habitat. pollutants. 8 - This is when water is released by plants into air 11 - Processes whereby certain organisms obtain 9 - Process where muscles contract and relax when energy from organic molecules. (Cellular it is cold, this generates heat ______) 12 - Name for a lake or river with high productivity 15 - This is when a substance changes from a liquid 13 - The ______cycle is the continuous state to gas state (requires energy). movement of water on, above, and below the 16 - Prefix for the word light surface of the Earth 18 - The slow movement of water through the soil 14 - When organisms can’t regulate their internal 20 - Island ______is the study of temperature rates of colonization and extinction of species on 17 - A decrease in the core body temperature to a islands. level at which normal muscular and brain functions 26 - The transferring of pollen (plants sex cells) are impaired from one plant to another 19 - 6CO2 + 6H2O +______= 27 - Name for a lake or river with moderate C6H12O6 + 6O2 productivity 21 - When oxygen is removed from a water body 29 - All organisms have a range of by bacteria ______to the abiotic factors 22 - Another name for the word non-living 30 - Of, pertaining to, or produced by life or living 23 - Maintaining a warm body temperature organisms. independent of environmental conditions. 31 - Warm and cold abiotic factor 24 - This is a life, Earth, change atoms, repeating 32 - The type of thermoregulation that you can event (______cycle) control 25 - The answer for this question is biological 33 - The wettest of the seven abiotic factors 26 - A process that converts carbon dioxide into 34 - This cycle circulates nitrogen from the air, to organic compounds, especially sugars, using the the soil, to organisms, and then back to the air. energy from sunlight. (______cycle) 28 - Name for a lake or river with low productivity 35 - The brightest of the seven abiotic factors 36 - The ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries 37 - This is when water vapor (gas) turns back to a liquid. (energy required / cold) -cloud formation Name:______

Abiotic Factors

H C P R E C I P I T A T I O N P A B H Y P E R T H E R M I A E A O B R D I S P E R S A L O N A P V H N A P H A C I D R E S P I R A T I O N T O P V W C U I A R O E V A P O R A T I O N O P H O T O T U T R T L R N Y I S R I E D O P O A N R B P E R C O L A T I O N N N G L H I T S O B I O G E O G R A P H Y W P B O C U H B E A B P O L L I N A T I O N I I D T T I R R I H R O E R E O M M E S O T R O P H I C O A G D O N T I B L T L T O L E R A N C E P E I A L O O B I O T I C I O E H R C O G S G O C S I G O I Y I N H S C Y D C N O E A E A T E M P E R A T U R E M T D L H R I P H Y S I O L O G I C A L N E M O I S T U R E C O E S P A N I T R O G E N S L I G H T T H E R M O R E G U L A T I O N S S I C O N D E N S A T I O N