10: Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach

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Across
  1. 2. the average course or condition of the weather at a place usually over a period of years
  2. 5. a climate that is frost-free with temperatures high enough to support year-round plant growth
  3. 6. occurs when people are unable to meet their basic needs
  4. 11. balancing of factors which are not attainable at the same time
  5. 14. land covered with grasses and other soft plants but not with bushes and trees
  6. 16. an occurrence in which something burns
  7. 18. allowing animals to graze to the point of damaging vegetational cover
  8. 19. a wood grown and used for fuel
  9. 20. the act or result of cutting down or burning all the trees in an area
  10. 23. to feed on growing herbage
  11. 24. someone or something that could cause trouble or harm
  12. 25. a woody perennial plant having a single main stem with few or no branches on its lower part
Down
  1. 1. a large area of land where animals feed on the grass
  2. 3. a set of organisms interacting with one another and with their nonliving environment
  3. 4. a plant or plant product that is grown by farmers
  4. 7. management of natural resources by minimizing resource waste and sustaining resource supplies
  5. 8. group of individuals of the same species living in a particular place
  6. 9. an open land that farm animals use for grazing and roaming
  7. 10. biological diversity
  8. 12. absence of grazing for long periods
  9. 13. group of organisms with distinctive traits
  10. 15. the act of cutting down trees
  11. 17. farm animals that are kept, raised, and used by people
  12. 19. a biome with thick growth of trees and bushes that covers a large area
  13. 21. someone whose job is to cut down trees for wood
  14. 22. any of numerous small invertebrate animals that are more or less obviously segmented