Environmental Science

1. Wet Spongy land often with certain types of trees, occasional flooding
3. Capable of living or being lived in
5. Not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance
8. growth Forest has more standing dead trees and more bio-diverse ecosystem
9. Forest forest that hasn't been touched by logging or natural disaster
10. succession the gradual change from one species to another as environmental conditions change
12. plant stage Plant life begins to grow under the water such as algae and humus
14. the protective shell of many animals such as a scorpion
17. Low wet land often treeless and flooded
18. Forest Government owned forest
20. plant stage Small plants begin to poke out of the water

2. a grassland often turned into farmland
4. Decomposed organic matter
6. species indicate some value in the environment such as climate change
7. the presence of a large number of different species
11. stage small amounts of plants growing around the edge of pond or lake
13. Reusing
15. log A fallen tree that other trees will us the nutrients from and grow from it
16. Duck Most common duck in new Brunswick
19. A standing dead tree