Across
- 2. Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land
- 5. The overharvesting of fish and marine animals, that their survival is endangered, and it involves catching so many of one species that the species is unable to recover
- 6. Contamination of soil, water or atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances
- 8. A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall that results in a shortage of water
- 12. When new land is uncovered, so pioneer organisms start new ecosystem by making dirt from rocks
- 13. All the interacting groups of various species(biotic factors)
- 14. The animals of a particular biome
- 15. The variety of life in the world or in a particular ecosystem
- 16. Ecological community of plants and animals that exist in balance with each other and their environment with little change;last stage of succession
- 17. Large ecosystem of flora, fauna, and abiotic factors occupying a major habitat
Down
- 1. Environmental factors that are living (flora/fauna)
- 3. Process of the ecosystem rebuilding, from a previous established ecosystem that was destroyed by human intervention or natural disasters
- 4. Hardy Species, that are the 1st to colonize new ecosystems and begin the food chain (moss/lichen)
- 7. Environmental factors that are non-living
- 9. The plants of a particular biome
- 10. The preservation, protection or restoration of the natural environment, natural ecosystem, vegetation, or wildlife
- 11. A group of the same species that live/interact together