Across
- 3. Services any benefit obtained from the natural processes and functioning of ecosystems
- 6. the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth
- 8. the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas
- 10. Management an approach to natural resource management that aims to ensure the long-term sustainability and persistence of an ecosystem's function and services while meeting socioeconomic
- 13. the doctrine that mutual dependence is necessary to social well-being
- 14. the evaporation of water from plants,
- 15. Consumer are organisms that eat primary consumers for energy
- 17. the animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period. Compare with flora
- 18. consumer an animal that obtains its nutrition by eating primary consumers and secondary consumers
- 19. Cycling cyclic process that encompasses the movement of nutrients from the physical environment to living organisms and back to the environment
- 20. relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations
- 21. a person or thing that makes or causes something
Down
- 1. the preying of one animal on others
- 2. levels the group of organisms within an ecosystem which occupy the same level in a food chain
- 4. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common
- 5. a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat
- 7. the total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume
- 9. the process of something abstract ceasing to exist
- 11. the synthesis of organic compounds by bacteria or other living organisms using energy derived from reactions involving inorganic chemicals
- 12. Succession is the secondary ecological succession of a plant's life. As opposed to the first, primary succession,
- 16. an animal which feeds on dead organic material, especially plant detritus