India Biomes

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen (6)
  2. 4. The prevailing psychological state (7)
  3. 7. Containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor (5)
  4. 8. A ___ with heavy annual ___ (10)
  5. 9. Living things like trees and flowers that grow in soil (6)
  6. 11. A large mass of land projecting into a body of water (9)
  7. 13. Extensive tract of level open land (plural) (6)
  8. 14. A low area where the land is saturated with water (plural) (8)
  9. 15. A land mass that is surrounded by water (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 1. The cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees (5)
  2. 3. Dry land with very little rain (6)
  3. 5. A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment (9)
  4. 6. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs (7)
  5. 7. A mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet (plural) (9)
  6. 10. Living things like dogs and birds (7)
  7. 12. The cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees (4)