AICE Environmental Management Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. the process by which living organisms have developed and adapted into different forms
  2. 3. set out purposes or reasons/make the relationships between things evident
  3. 5. a hostile, barren landscape where less than 250 mm of precipitation occurs annually
  4. 8. a habitat that is small or limited in extent and that differs from the surrounding habitat
  5. 9. a biome with grassy plains and few trees, in the tropics and subtropics
  6. 11. identify/comment on similarities and/or differences
  7. 14. areas of permanently frozen ground
  8. 15. state the main points of a topic/give characteristics and main features
  9. 19. the gradual process by which an ecosystem develops and changes in a region that has not previously been colonized
  10. 20. the animal life characteristics of an area, region, or environment
Down
  1. 2. a biome found far north in asia and alaska, characterized by long, cold, dark winters, and short cool summers
  2. 4. the plants of a particular area, region or environment
  3. 6. an increase in nutrients in a body of water results in a rapid growth of algae
  4. 7. a hardy species which is capable of being the first to colonize disturbed or newly formed environments
  5. 10. the action of clearing forested areas
  6. 12. gross primary productivity
  7. 13. restoring an area of land to its natural undistributed state
  8. 16. the material in cells that carries information about how a living organism will look and function
  9. 17. pores in the leaf or stem of the plant
  10. 18. the basic units of heredity (characteristics) passed down from parent to young