Across
- 2. a tree
- 4. average weather conditions over a long period of time
- 6. earth or dirt
- 7. long-stemmed, woody vine
- 9. relating to feeding and nutrition
- 11. the variety of life
- 15. the part of the land adjoining or near the sea
- 16. forest clearance
- 18. trees poking high above the treetops of the canopy layer below
- 19. a chemical element
- 21. the world’s largest tropical rainforest
- 22. a supercontinent
- 24. upper canopy zone in a forest
- 25. small, non-vascular flowerless plants
- 26. an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources
- 27. a floridian biologist
- 29. a tropical fish
- 30. the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone
Down
- 1. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism
- 3. people inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists
- 5. protecting species from extinction
- 8. principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant
- 10. a chemical element with an atomic number of 8
- 12. all the plant life present in a particular region or time
- 13. droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity
- 14. natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida
- 17. a type of forest
- 20. the total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volum
- 23. all of the animal life present in a particular region or time
- 28. change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations