Environmental Science Crossword

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