Q4 BONUS - Environmental Science

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Across
  1. 6. enacted in 1969; designed to institutionalize within the federal government a concern for the “quality of the environment”.
  2. 12. the scientific study of human populations, their characteristics, how these characteristics affect growth, and the consequences of that growth.
  3. 13. a measure of the land area required to provide resources and absorb the waste of a population.
  4. 14. series of changes that countries naturally go through, being based on the standard of living and the population growth rate.
  5. 16. species that share a region develop a dependence on each other in order to survive; Ex. food chains and food webs.
  6. 18. the study of the ways organisms interact with each other and with their nonliving surroundings.
  7. 19. measures the amount of energy that an energy source produces and the amount of energy needed to produce the energy.
  8. 20. using technology that requires less energy to perform the same function.
Down
  1. 1. spread of low-density, auto-dependent development on rural land outside compact urban centers.
  2. 2. the concept that communities proceed through a series of recognizable, predictable changes in structure over time.
  3. 3. terrestrial climax communities with wide geographic distribution.
  4. 4. unpolluted freshwater that is suitable for drinking.
  5. 5. shape environmental law, but also control the daily operations of both the regulated industry and agencies authorized to protect the environment.
  6. 7. benefits people obtain from ecosystems that are organized into different groups.
  7. 8. factors that restrict the success of a species; can be abiotic or biotic.
  8. 9. a natural substance that is not replenished with the speed at which it is consumed; finite resource with the most common example being fossil fuels.
  9. 10. represents the number of different kinds of genes present in a population or a species.
  10. 11. an introduced, nonnative organism (disease, parasite, plant, or animal) that begins to spread or expand its range from the site of its original introduction.
  11. 15. degree to which a species is able to withstand environmental variation (ex. temperature).
  12. 17. functional role an organism has in its surroundings.