Across
- 3. Is the ability of the Earth's various natural systems and human cultural systems and economics to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely
- 5. Is the average number of children born to women in a population during their reproductive years
- 8. Is the number of individuals in a population found in a particular area or volume
- 11. Is an endeavor to discover how nature works and to use that knowledge to make predictions about what is likely to happen in nature
- 12. Occurs when too many animals graze for too long and exceed the carrying capacity of a range-land area
- 13. The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply the people in a particular country or area with resources
- 14. Is a potentially catastrophic problem because of the vital ecological service at risk
- 15. Feed on the waste or dead bodies of other organisms
- 18. The idea that all living things are composed of cells
- 23. Is a study of how these characteristics of populations change in response to changes in environmental conditions
- 25. Dominates most of the Planet
- 26. A well tested and widely accepted description of what happening over and over again in the same way in nature
- 29. The most common interaction between species for limited resources
- 30. RATE Is expressed as a percentage or number of species that go extinct within a certain time period such as a year
Down
- 1. Is the management of natural resources with the goal of minimizing resource waste and sustaining resource supplies for current and future generation
- 2. The process whereby Earth's life changes over time through changes in genes of population
- 4. Fishing vessels used this in which involves putting out lines up to 130km long, hung with thousands of baited hooks
- 6. The gradual change in species composition in a given area
- 7. Is the capacity to do work or transfer heat
- 9. Are disrupting and degrading some ecological and economic services provided by marine aquatic systems
- 10. The process of repairing damage caused by humans to the biodiversity and dynamics of natural ecosystems
- 16. Seek to understand population dynamics by investigating three main demographic processes: birth, immigration, and aging
- 17. Moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity
- 19. A sequence of organisms, each of which serve as a source of food or energy for the next
- 20. Is any in the environment that is harmful to the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms.
- 21. Is used to catch fishes and shellfish. It involves dragging a funnel-shapes net held open at the neck along the ocean bottom
- 22. The number of different species, it contains combined with the relative abundance of individuals within each of those species
- 24. Are where rivers meet the sea
- 27. Prevailing wind blowing over the oceans produce mass movements of surface water
- 28. Large terrestrial regions characterized by similar climate, soil, plants, and animals regardless of where they found in the world