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Across
- 3. Principles and practices managing and using forests, including timber, wildlife, and watershed management.
- 7. Designing and constructing a new meandering stream to fit watershed conditions.
- 8. Forest stand with trees suitable for lumber.
- 9. Vegetation community dominated by grasses.
- 11. Quiet, deeper sections of a stream.
- 12. Curving, often describing rivers and streams in lowlands.
- 13. Ridge of sediment deposited naturally by overflowing river.
- 17. Layer of living tissue between bark and sapwood in woody plants where new bark and wood are formed.
- 19. Soil particles ranging from clay to very fine sand in size.
- 21. Microscopic aquatic plants, first step in many aquatic food chains.
- 22. Forest established by planting seeds or seedlings.
- 23. Young tree, less than 4 inches in diameter at breast height.
- 24. Group of organisms occupying a common environment and interacting with each other.
- 25. Animals of a particular region or period considered as a group.
Down
- 1. Forest land producing or capable of producing marketable forest products.
- 2. Organism growing on bare sites and persisting until replaced by other species.
- 4. Lake with low nutrient levels relative to its volume.
- 5. Tough exterior covering of a woody root or stem.
- 6. Treeless area characterized by grasses or cultivated crops.
- 10. Lower floodplain areas where old stream beds create depressions.
- 14. Wearing away of land surface by wind or water.
- 15. Rain-fed bog system.
- 16. Aquatic organisms suspended in water, usually microscopic, include bacteria, algae, protozoa, larvae, and small crustaceans.
- 18. Encircling a tree's stem with cuts to kill it by preventing nutrient passage.
- 20. Stable association of plants and animals representing the final stage of succession.