Earth Systems Vocabulary

Horizontal Words

1. all life on earth (9)
3. The continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and the air (11)
5. All the living and nonliving things that surround an organism (11)
7. The layers of gasses that surround a planet (10)
9. All of the water on earth (11)
11. Resources that are obtained from the earth (17)
13. All the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other (9)

Vertical Words

2. Amount of something (water) available at any time (9)
4. To act on one another (8)
6. Any individual living thing (8)
8. Earth's crust (9)
10. Water stored below Earth's surface in soil and rock layers (11)
12. A group of related objects that work together to perform a function (6)
14. A large mass of ice resting on, or overlapping, a land surface (7)