This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Ecology & Evolution has 19 clues. Answers range from 5 to 13 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
the part of the earth's crust, waters, and atmosphere that supports life.
a system, or a group of interconnected elements, formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment.
of or characterized by the absence of life or living organisms.
pertaining to life
an assemblage of interacting populations occupying a given area.
the assemblage of a specific type of organism living in a given area.
a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being
the act of adapting.
(in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.
shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs
the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.
any of numerous, chiefly evergreen trees or shrubs of the class Coniferinae (or group Coniferales), including the pine, fir, spruce, and other cone-bearing trees and shrubs, and also the yews and their allies that bear drupelike seeds.
a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all:
a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years.
a graphic representation of the relation of two climatic elements (as temperature and humidity) plotted at monthly intervals throughout the year.