APES CROSSWORD

3. soil horizon layers
4. Setting aside areas & protecting them from human activities
7. perfect agricultural soil with equal portions of sand, silt, clay
8. underground layers of porous rock allow water to move slowly
11. The ability to meet humanity's current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs
16. Feedback When a changing in some conditions triggers a response that intensifies the changing condition
17. Feedback When a change in some conditions triggers a response that intensifies the changing condition
19. Removal of dissolved materials from soil by water moving downwards through soil
20. deposit of leached material in lower soil layers
22. ammonia is converted to nitrate ions
23. A rock that contains a large enough concentration of a mineral making it profitable to extract
24. allows use of resources in a responsible manner
25. Plants convert CO2 into complex carbs (glucose)

1. organic, dark material remaining after decomposition by microorganisms
2. The living components of an ecosystem
5. Inorganic N is converted into organic molecules such as DNA/amino acids & proteins
6. decomposers convert organic waste into ammonia
9. Greek goddess Mother Earth
10. good= disinfection of water, bad= forms trihalomethanes
12. Professional growing of trees
13. The nonliving components of an ecosystem
14. Plowed, planted, and haversted to provide forage for an animals
15. Bacteria convert ammonia back into N
18. time between a stimulus and the response of a system
21. all of the land that drains into the body of water