Ch. 10-12 Vocabulary Test Crossword
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
 
 
Down: 1) The open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation international waters body of water.2) Protecting an inner core of a reserve by establishing two buffer zones in which local people can extract resources in ways that are sustainable and that do not harm the inner core.3) A form of selective cutting in which most or all of the largest trees are removed.4) Managed grassland or enclosed meadow that usually is planted with domesticated grasses or other forage to be grazed by livestock.5) Acronym for habitat destruction and fragmentation, invasive species, population growth, pollution, and overharvesting.6) Set small, contained surface forest or clear out (thin) flammable small trees and underbrush in the highest-risk forest areas.7) The largest yield (or catch) that can be taken from a species' stock.9) Studies ways to encourage biodiversity in human-dominated ecosystems.11) A seazone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources.13) Depletion of the population of a wild species used as a resource to a level at which it is no longer profitable to harvest the species.14) Discusses how humans have impacted aquatic systems, and how these actions have affected the environment.18) Catching fish in huge nets that drift in the water.20) A wild species that is still abundant in its natural range but is likely to become endangered because of a decline in numbers.21) A wild species with so few individual survivors that the species could soon become extinct in all or most of its natural range.22) Restoration, creation, enhancement, or preservation of a wetland, stream, or habitat conservation area which offsets expected adversity.23) Value of an organism, species, ecosystem, or the earth's biodiversity based on its usefulness to us.25) Agreement in which a certain amount of foreign debt is canceled in exchange for local currency investments that will improve natural resource management or protect certain areas in the debtor country from harmful development.26) Protected area between isolated reserves can help support more species and allow migration of vertebrates that need large ranges.28) 71% of the total area of the national forests in return for clearing away smaller, more fire-prone trees and underbrush. Exempts most thinning projects from environmental reviews and appeals currently required by forest protection laws.29) Benefits us in the form of economic goods and services, ecological services, recreation, scientific information, and preservation of options for such uses in the future.30) Virgin and old, second-growth forests containing trees that are often hundreds, sometimes thousands of years old. Examples include forests of Douglas fir, western hemlock, giant sequoia, and coastal redwoods in the western United States.31) Method of timber harvesting in which all trees in a forested area are removed in a single cutting.33) Destruction of vegetation when too many grazing animals feed too long and exceed the carrying capacity of a rangeland or pasture area.35) Attempting to turn a degraded ecosystem back into a functional or useful ecosystem without trying to restore it to its original condition. Across: 8) Has emerged as one of the most important integrative principles of biology and as one of the four principles of biology and as one of the four principles of sustainability.10) Site planted with one or only a few tree species in an even-aged stand. When the stand matures it is usually harvested by clear-cutting and then replanted. These farms normally are used to grow rapidly growing tree species for fuel wood, timber, or pulpwood.12) Forest fire that burns only undergrowth and leaf litter on the forest floor. Compare crown fire, ground fire. See controlled burning.15) Harmful ecological and economic effects from the presence of accidentally or deliberately introduced species into ecosystems.16) Refers to the value that people derive from economic goods (including public goods or natural resources) independent of any use, present or future, which people might make of those goods.17) A way to reduce the severity of the fuel wood crises in developing countries is to plant small plantations of fast-growing fuel wood trees and shrubs around farms and in community woodlots.19) Allowed the government to protect underdeveloped tracts of public land from development as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System.24) A process for the management of the coast using an integrated approach.27) Value of an organism, species, ecosystem, or the earth's biodiversity based on its existence, regardless of whether it has any usefulness to us.32) Stands of trees resulting from secondary ecological succession. Compare old-growth forest, tree farm.34) Deliberate alteration of a degraded habitat or ecosystem to restore as much of its ecological structure and function as possible.36) Restrictions on a deed that bar future owners from developing the land.37) Fire that burns decayed leaves or peat deep below the ground surface.38) Land that supplies forage or vegetation (grasses, grasslike plants, and shrubs) for grazing and browsing animals and is not intensively managed.39) Area where the earth and its community of life have not been seriously disturbed by humans and where humans are only temporary visitors.40) Cutting of intermediate-aged, mature, or diseased trees in an uneven-aged forest stand, either singly or in small groups. This encourages the growth of younger trees and maintains an uneven-aged stand.41) Replacing a degraded ecosystem with another type of ecosystem. For example, a productive pasture or tree farm may replace a degraded forest.
 

 

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