Chapter 5 crossword Mady Stief and Remy Boston
Across
- 2. when members of a species are held by people in zoos or other conservation facilities.
- 3. nonnative species in an area.
- 6. different environmental conditions that occur along the boundaries of an ecosystem.
- 8. separation of wilderness areas areas from each other.
- 10. species that have rapidly decreasing numbers of individuals.
- 11. field of biology that studies method and implements plans to protect biodiversity.
- 12. when the last members of a species die.
- 13. natural strips of land that allow the migration of organisms from one wilderness area to another.
- 14. philosophy that promotes letting people use resources in wilderness areas in ways that will not damage the ecosystem.
Down
- 1. rain,snow,sleet or fog with a pH below 7
- 4. layer of the atmosphere that helps to protect living organisms on earth's surface from damaging does of ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
- 5. variety of life in an area.
- 7. programs that release organisms into an area where their species once lived in hope of reestablishing naturally reproducing populations.
- 8. damage to a habitat by air, water, and land pollution.
- 9. a species in which the number of individuals falls so low that extinction is possible.