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Nutrient Cycles in the Biosphere Crossword - WordMint
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Nutrient Cycles in the Biosphere
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Across
2. What is it called when it
rains?
3. Waste product that is exhaled
from animals
4. Simple sugar produced by
plants
9. Any living thing
12. Organisms that are key to
the nitrogen cycle
13. Area of the Earth where life
is able to exist
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Down
15. Change from a gas to a
1. Process of changing nitrogen
liquid state
gas into usable nitrogen
16. small, green, photosynthetic compounds
organism, usually aquatic,
5. Process by which plants make
17. Mushrooms, yeasts and
food
toadstools
6. Element that animals need to
18. Energy resources formed
breathe in order to survive
from the remains of plants and 7. Change from liquid water to
animals that lived millions of
water vapor
years ago
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8. Movement of water through
the biosphere
10. Organisms that break down
dead matter into simple organic
parts
11. when organisms combine
glucose and oxygen to produce
energy
14. Protects the Earth from the
sun's rays
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