Biology
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Ch 15 Vocab Review
Across
1. ecosystems identified by their climax
communities
7. all of the living things in an environment
8. a collection of the organisms interacting
with each other and their physical
environment
9. when climate conditions vary of small
distances
10. when gases in the
atmosphere trap the
sun's energy for
a period of time
11. all of the
non-living
things in an
environment
12. the fact
that human
activities are
adding to the
greenhouse
gases in the
atmosphere
13. the prediction that the enhanced greenhouse effect is
used to predict a significant rise in Earth's average
temperature
14. the relatively stable collection of
plants and animals in an ecosystem
Down
2. the process by which an existing
ecosystem is gradually replaced by
another
3. the temperature range, the
average annual precipitation,
humidity, and the sunshine an
area gets
4.
the
type of surroundings in which a species lives and thrives
5. a combination of the living and non-living things in an area
6. the full range of physical and biological conditions in which
an species can live and the way they use those conditions