Across
- 2. change in either species composition, structure, or architecture of vegetation through time
- 3. forest- vegetation composed primarily of broad-leaved trees that shed all their leaves during one season.
- 7. effect- a patch of land that has been forced to become a desert because mountain ranges blocked all plant-growing
- 10. distance above sea level
- 11. permanently frozen layer below Earth's surface.
- 12. succession-newly exposed or newly formed rock is colonized by living things for the first time
- 14. the measurement of distance north or south of the Equator
- 15. species-Species that arrive first in a newly created environment
- 16. freezing most of the year low temperature moderate rainfall
- 18. large community of vegetation and wildlife adapted to a specific climate
- 19. the direction in which the wind is blowing
- 20. arid ecosystems that receive fewer than 25 centimeters of precipitation a year
Down
- 1. succession- when the severity of disturbance is insufficient to remove all the existing vegetation and soil from a site
- 4. a graphic representation of the relation of two climatic elements plotted at monthly intervals throughout the year
- 5. an area of tall, mostly evergreen trees and a high amount of rainfall
- 6. parts of earth where life exist
- 8. forest-A forest that grows in regions of the northern hemisphere with cold temperatures
- 9. large open areas of grass
- 13. species- the final stage of biotic succession attainable by a plant community in an area
- 17. When wind blows toward a mountain and is forced up producing condensation and precipitation.