Environmental Science Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. - scientist who coined the term keystone that was based of his study of rocky shore communities (2 words)
  2. 5. - Administers 261 million surface acres of public lands in american, mainly in western states
  3. 6. - Fruit with a hard exterior
  4. 10. Park Service - Service that manages all of the national parks
  5. 11. - Wolves that were reintroduced to yellowstone changed the behavior of these animals letting plants regenerate.
  6. 13. - The Science of identifying and classifying organisms
  7. 14. - have two small springs and are the fastest type of foothold trap
  8. 17. - Species that are undomesticated and free roaming
  9. 19. - strips of unbroken habitat that connect uncut areas
  10. 20. - Bait consists of a mixture of a substance to attract the insects and an insecticide to kill them.
  11. 23. - Nickname for theodore Roosevelet
  12. 26. - South Carolina’s state beverage
  13. 28. - This organism can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day and reduce the erosion of banks.
  14. 29. - Watershed thats name is the abbreviation of rivers, Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto
  15. 30. - Created by an act of Congress in 1879
  16. 34. - Horseshoe crab blood isn’t iron based like mammals but _______ based
  17. 35. - Ecological process where energy moves from the top to the bottom of the food chain.
  18. 37. - Fruit with a flesh like exterior (2 words)
  19. 40. - designed to kill the target animal quickly
Down
  1. 1. - South Carolina’s state bird (2 words)
  2. 2. - Disturbance that leaves no soil
  3. 3. - a single spring trap with a typical jaw spread of around 4 3/4″
  4. 7. - has the trigger placed on the soil surface over a slightly depressed mole run
  5. 8. - Formed in 1970 when some of the oldest agencies in the Federal Government came together
  6. 9. - Elliptical shaped bodies of water found in the coastal plain (2 words)
  7. 12. Service - Established in 1905 to manage public lands in national forests and grasslands
  8. 15. - he gradual and predictable replacement of one community by another
  9. 16. Pinchot - he first Chief of the Forest Service
  10. 18. - Animal often mistaken to be a crab but is actually more closely related to arachnids like spiders and scorpions. (2 words)
  11. 21. - South Carolina’s state tree
  12. 22. - a monitoring tool and a removal tool
  13. 24. - Animals found outside natural range (2 words)
  14. 25. - Group of very similar organisms related by a common descendant
  15. 27. - Species that multiplied on large scale after the removal of a sea star species
  16. 31. - designed to catch moles as they run along an active tunnel
  17. 32. - Species whose impact on its community or ecosystem is larger and greater than would be expected from its relative abundance.
  18. 33. - State organization that monitors natural resources
  19. 36. - Geographic region of South Carolina that harbor the appalachian mountains (2 words)
  20. 38. - typically made of nylon or polyester mesh suspended between two poles, resembling a volleyball net.
  21. 39. - provides wildlife with temporary refuge from weather, a place to forage, rest, bed down, nest, breed, and rear young.