An easy crossword puzzle about nature’s record holders and extremes. Perfect for elementary students learning about the tallest, fastest, and biggest natural wonders.
Cryptic Flora and Fauna Lexicon is a hard crossword puzzle with 15 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Cryptic Flora and Fauna Lexicon
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Organisms dwelling in rock crevices, hidden from sunlight
- 2. Spiny-skinned marine creature with pentaradial symmetry
- 3. Study of Earth's material cycles through living systems
- 6. Soil bacteria’s conversion transforming ammonia to nitrate
- 8. Chemical sabotage plants use to outcompete neighbors
- 11. Drought-defying plant adapted to arid extremes
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- 4. Reconstructing ancient weather through ice cores and sediment
- 5. Mapping the moon, nature’s nighttime satellite
- 7. Process turning plant tissue rigid through polymer deposition
- 9. Temperature boundary in lakes splitting warm from cold layers
- 10. Seed dispersal by animal carriers, nature’s couriers
- 12. Day length cue triggering seasonal biological responses
- 13. Symbiotic network beneath forest floors, fungal roots entwined
- 14. Pigment painting petals with hues beyond chlorophyll's green
- 15. Capable of absorbing moisture from the surrounding air
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