APES mind bender
Across
- 1. the amount of energy used when a 1-watt electrical device is turned on for 1 second
- 4. time to promote a synergistic interaction
- 7. a cold and treeless biome with low-growing vegetation
- 9. in resource management, the known quantity of a resource that can be economically recovered
- 11. the evolution of new species
- 14. the movement of people out of a region
- 17. nonliving
- 18. the upward movement of ocean water toward the surface as a result of diverging currents
- 20. material outputs from a system that are not useful or consumed
- 21. areas of the world in which a species lives
- 22. an agricultural technique in which trees and vegetables are intercropped
- 25. a horizontal layer in a soil defined by distinctive physical features such as texture and color
Down
- 2. a secondary pollutant made up of three oxygen atoms bound together
- 3. an agricultural method in which two or more crop species are planted in the same field at the
- 5. evolution below the species level
- 6. livestock or poultry consumed as food
- 8. the outermost layer of Earth, including the mantle and crust
- 10. the physical removal of rock fragments from a landscape or ecosystem
- 12. a trait that improves fitness
- 13. a commercially harvestable population of fish within a particular ecological region
- 15. the process of one crustal plate passing under another
- 16. molten rock
- 19. the rate at which work is done
- 23. a physical location on the chromosomes within each cell of an organism
- 24. a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution