MONTHLY TEST #2 PASC Review

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Across
  1. 2. For thousands of years ___ grew in Yellowstone National Park.
  2. 5. A city can help stop sprawl by planning how it grows. Planning may be a _____ task, but it has payoffs!
  3. 10. In 1970, Costa Rica's National Park service was founded by Mario Boza. He worked to save and set aside protected land. Other _____ groups, or groups that work to save land or animals, joined him.
  4. 11. William _____ is a scientist who studies aspens. He found that aspens began to disappear around the same time that the wolves were removed.
  5. 13. It's a ____law that as more people move in, a city must expand, or grow larger.
  6. 14. Near the village was a large pond that was filled with all kinds of animals, _____ frogs.
  7. 16. You learn so much about animal ____, or areas where animals live and find shelter, on an eco-tour!
  8. 18. The wolves were killing sheep and cattle at ranches, so ranchers and ____ killed many of the wolves. The rest were removed from the park.
  9. 20. Sprawl is taking a ___ on humans, animals, and plants.
  10. 22. Though Costa Rica was not a wealthy country in the 1960's, it had an important ____, it's rain forests!
  11. 23. The old woman asked the chief, "How can thousands of mosquitoes be killed by a few people? It is the ____ of the mosquitoes to lay many, many eggs."
  12. 26. More schools, stores, and offices were built in Atlanta between 2000 and 2006. Growth like this is called ____.
  13. 27. In the African folktale "All Things Are Linked," a cruel ___ ruled over a village, and people who did not obey him were put to death.
Down
  1. 1. Eco-tourist guides are people who explain the ___ of plants and animals in the rain forest ecosystem.
  2. 3. _____, or scientists who study ecology, call Kudzu "the plant that ate the South."
  3. 4. When a few days had passed after the people of the village killed the frogs, the people and their farm animals were all feeling _____, covered with mosquito bites.
  4. 6. By 1997, Costa Rica had 24 ____ parks.
  5. 7. Roads help plants move to new places; a seed may stick to a muddy ____, or it gets caught under a truck or car.
  6. 8. In the 1920's the wolves in ____ were causing problems.
  7. 9. Deer eat tree bark and ____, or break-into, people's gardens.
  8. 12. The wise old woman asked the chief, "What are you doing? Don't you know all things are ___?"
  9. 15. Sprawl means less green space. Trees are cut. Wetlands are filled in. Roads divide land into smaller and smaller ____.
  10. 17. As cities expand, animal habitats disappear. So, big animals like deer come to our homes _____ food.
  11. 19. Ripple found young aspens growing along the banks of ____ in Yellowstone. This shows that bringing back wolves has helped bring back the aspens.
  12. 21. The night after the people of the village killed the frogs, the chief slept ____, but the old woman stayed awake.
  13. 24. People realized that wolves played an important ___ in Yellowstone's ecosystem.
  14. 25. When more schools and public buildings go up, people must pay more money to the government called ____.