Vocab Crossword

2. To sort individuals together into groups having common characteristics or attributes.
4. soil developing and creating opportunities for plants or animals.
7. a plant community replaced by another by fires, flooding or other.
10. The progressive development of vegetation toward its ultimate plant community, the climax. The replacement of one plant community by another.
12. A vegetative or flora sample for determining the plant community and dominant plant species within a specified area.
14. The process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.
16. Plant migration on newly formed soils or upon soils that have never borne vegetation
17. invasion by plants on land that was previously vegetated occurs more rapidly then primary succession.

1. the degree of different life forms within a given species, ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet.
3. The progressive development of vegetation toward its ultimate community, the climax The replacement of one plant community by another.
4. an organism that can create organic molecules from inorganic substances.
5. A list of the plants in a delimited plot of vegetation, with information on species cover and on substrate and other abiotic features in the plot.
6. An assemblage of plants living together under the same environmental conditions.
8. Any group or association of plants; the sum of vegetable life; plants in general.
9. and event of force either biological or not, changes organisms spatial patterning in the ecosystems they inhabit.
11. A biologist who studies the relationship between organisms and their environment.
13. The total external conditions that may effect organism or community that effects its development or existence.
15. Groups of similar organisms that can reproduce similar offspring identified by its genus and species name.