Unit 6 NRE

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Across
  1. 4. Any group or association of plants; the sum of vegetable life; plants in general.
  2. 5. sources via photosynthesis (i.e., involving light energy) or chemosynthesis (i.e., involving chemical
  3. 7. A biologist who studies the relationship between organisms and their environment.
  4. 8. succession The progressive development of vegetation toward its ultimate plant community, the
  5. 12. as a sand bar in a river.
  6. 13. A type of succession resulting from changes the biotic community makes in the environment. The
  7. 18. to describe the apparent vertical structure, and in each stratum, each plant is assigned a cover value
  8. 19. seeds are already present in soil.Species – Groups of organisms with similar characteristics. Organisms that together can reproduce similar
  9. 23. much more rapidly than primary succession because soil does not need to be created, and nutrients
  10. 25. The process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.
  11. 26. The degree of variation of life forms within a given species, ecosystem, biome, or an entire
  12. 27. leading to different plant communities are examples.
  13. 28. environment due to abiotic factors, e.g., flooding or fire.
  14. 29. Each species of plant or animal is identified by its genus and species name, e.g., the generic name
  15. 32. The sum total of all the external conditions that may act upon an organism or community to
Down
  1. 1. of soil by colonizing plants provides opportunities for different plant species, or the grazing of
  2. 2. its development or existence.
  3. 3. community An assemblage of plants living together under the same environmental conditions.
  4. 6. A type of succession in which a plant community is replaced by another because of a change in
  5. 9. The progressive development of vegetation toward its ultimate community, the climax. The
  6. 10. of one plant community by another.
  7. 11. and other abiotic features in the plot. Typically, the vegetation is stratified into height categories
  8. 14. area.
  9. 15. succession Plant migration on newly formed soils or upon soils that have never borne vegetation,
  10. 16. succession Invasion by plants on land that was previously vegetated. Secondary succession
  11. 17. To sort individuals together into groups having common characteristics or attributes.
  12. 19. Of or relating to an autotroph, an organism capable of making nutritive organic molecules from
  13. 20. on its representation in that stratum.
  14. 21. A vegetative or flora sample for determining the plant community and dominant plant species within a
  15. 22. The replacement of one plant community by another.
  16. 23. corn is Zea, and the species name is mays.
  17. 24. An event or force of nonbiological or biological origin that brings about mortality to organisms
  18. 30. A list of the plants in a delimited plot of vegetation, with information on species cover and on
  19. 31. changes in their spatial patterning in the ecosystems they inhabit.