WHEP Lesson 1 Vocab
Across
- 5. The plant community along with the animal community together with soil, air, water, and sunlight
- 8. Where 2 or more vegetation types or successional stages meet
- 10. Living and non-living things interact
- 13. How different successional stages or vegetation types are located in relation to each other
- 15. _______ capacity: number of animals that can exist in one area
- 17. Group of organisms that can interbreed and produce viable offspring
- 18. How often different vegetation types occur
- 19. Spread very quickly, hard to control
- 21. Sequence of plant types that replace one another during succession
- 24. Many individuals of one species that interact
Down
- 1. Change in plant community over time
- 2. Area with characteristics of both vegetation types or successional stages
- 3. Disruption of vegetation types by man or by natural processes
- 4. Not from here. Introduced from other area
- 6. Group of living things of different species that interact
- 7. Resources needed by a wildlife species for survival and reproduction
- 9. Food, cover (shelter), water, space
- 11. Areas that allow animals to move around areas in their home range or during migrations. Size and vegetation in corridor needed varies by species.
- 12. Able to maintain populations in the wild
- 14. Areas with similar climate, vegetation, and wildlife. Divides land into areas based on the most common ecosystem in that region.
- 16. Species that need large, unfragmented area in a certain successional stage to provide habitat needs. Require unfragmented habitat of at least 100 acres; some need more.
- 20. Plant life
- 22. Having offspring
- 23. Wildflowers