Across
- 4. The development of highly productive crop strains and the use of modern agricultural techniques to increase yields of food crops.
- 9. The loss of forests.
- 11. The name of our solar system.
- 13. The sum total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere.
- 15. Can not be replenished by natural processes.
- 17. Gray-brown haze in the atmosphere.
- 19. Disappearance of a species from all parts of its geographical range.
- 20. Ms. Wolf's last name.
- 22. The science of art and farming.
- 23. The variety of habitats, living communities, and ecological processes in the living world.
- 24. Finish this phrase: "Red Robin...."
- 25. Regan's favorite color. (It rhymes with slurple)
Down
- 1. Species whose population size is rapidly declining and will be extinct if the trend continues.
- 2. The practice in which large fields are planted with a single variety year after year.
- 3. The number of different species in the biosphere.
- 5. The current president of the United States.
- 6. The sum total of all the different forms of genetic information carried by all organisms living on earth today.
- 7. Can regenerate of they are alive or be replenished by biochemical cycles if nonliving.
- 8. The capital of Idaho.
- 10. The wearing away of surface soil by water and wind.
- 12. Rain containing nitric and sulfuric acids.
- 14. Splitting of ecosystems into small fragments.
- 16. The raising of aquatic animals for human consumption.
- 18. Harmful material that can enter the biosphere through the land air, or water.
- 21. Atmospheric layer in which ozone gas is relatively concentrated.