environmental economics Crossword Puzzles
Economics 2022-10-20
Across
- The quantity of products that consumers are willing to pay for and buy during a period of time
- a field that Lionel Robbins said that it brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.
- A lot of factories manufactured sanitary products during Covid-19 crisis, which flooded markets with more than the needed amounts by consumers. This marks a .....?
- Richard Branson says that it is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.
- Karl Marx said that nothing could be of value if it wasn't an object of.....
Down
- an economic system that believes in private ownership and minimal intervention of the government.
- During Covid-19,for some reason, the U.S. markets were missing on toilet paper!They were experiencing a ........?
- william Howard Taft said that we are all dependent on its investment.
- An orange farm provides to the market 3000 oranges per week, this marks ...?
- a state of having a paid work
10 Clues: a state of having a paid work • william Howard Taft said that we are all dependent on its investment. • An orange farm provides to the market 3000 oranges per week, this marks ...? • Karl Marx said that nothing could be of value if it wasn't an object of..... • The quantity of products that consumers are willing to pay for and buy during a period of time • ...
Economics 2022-06-21
Across
- spending of income
- someone who buys things to fulfil needs and wants
- type of loan given when buying a house
- a common 'buy now pay later' app
Down
- financial plan that record incomes and expenses
- unit of ownership of a corporation
- things necessary for survival
- being in short supply
- money received from wages or investments
- a dishonest scheme or fraud
10 Clues: spending of income • being in short supply • a dishonest scheme or fraud • things necessary for survival • a common 'buy now pay later' app • unit of ownership of a corporation • type of loan given when buying a house • money received from wages or investments • financial plan that record incomes and expenses • someone who buys things to fulfil needs and wants
Economics 2022-06-21
Across
- someone who buys things to fulfil needs and wants
- spending of income
- money received from wages or investments
- a common 'buy now pay later' app
Down
- things necessary for survival
- financial plan that record incomes and expenses
- being in short supply
- a dishonest scheme or fraud
- type of loan given when buying a house
- unit of ownership of a corporation
10 Clues: spending of income • being in short supply • a dishonest scheme or fraud • things necessary for survival • a common 'buy now pay later' app • unit of ownership of a corporation • type of loan given when buying a house • money received from wages or investments • financial plan that record incomes and expenses • someone who buys things to fulfil needs and wants
economics 2022-02-07
Across
- part of earths surface
- when one choice is made
- off must be given for alternative
- promoting interests
Down
- possibilities curve diagram representing all goods
- people with all their abilities
- financial assest to produce goods
- to change
- introduce new products
- of production productive resources needed to produce goods
10 Clues: to change • promoting interests • part of earths surface • introduce new products • when one choice is made • people with all their abilities • financial assest to produce goods • off must be given for alternative • possibilities curve diagram representing all goods • of production productive resources needed to produce goods
Economics 2023-01-24
Across
- a person who gives money or trades items for things he or she wants or needs
- when you trade or give up one item for another item
- the number of people who want or need something
- a picture that represents something else
- a feature that helps us identify something
- the amount of something that is available
Down
- how money, good, and services are produced and used
- a country's system of money
- a good or item
- when something is difficult to get
10 Clues: a good or item • a country's system of money • when something is difficult to get • a picture that represents something else • the amount of something that is available • a feature that helps us identify something • the number of people who want or need something • how money, good, and services are produced and used • when you trade or give up one item for another item • ...
Economics 2023-01-24
Across
- How money, goods, and services are produced or used
- A person who gives money or trades items for the things he or she wants or needs
- The amount of something that is available
- When something is difficult to get
- The number of people who want or need something
- A country's system of money
Down
- A feature that helps us identify something
- When you trade or give up one item for another
- A picture that represents something else
- A good or item
10 Clues: A good or item • A country's system of money • When something is difficult to get • A picture that represents something else • The amount of something that is available • A feature that helps us identify something • When you trade or give up one item for another • The number of people who want or need something • How money, goods, and services are produced or used • ...
Economics 2022-12-06
Across
- the process of discovering new ways of combining resources
- the gap between limited resources and theoretically limitless wants
- t's cash in hand that is available for spending
- a necessity in life
Down
- the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen.
- resources and, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.
- payment or concession to stimulate greater output or investment.
- something that is desired
- a measure of the work done by human beings
- a factor of production, similar to labor, as one of the crucial elements in creating goods and services
10 Clues: a necessity in life • something that is desired • a measure of the work done by human beings • t's cash in hand that is available for spending • resources and, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship. • the process of discovering new ways of combining resources • payment or concession to stimulate greater output or investment. • ...
Economics 2025-06-05
Across
- Exchange of goods and services
- Group of people sharing cultural traits
- Measure of goods and services produced
- Social class defined by income and occupation
- Study of wealth and resource distribution
Down
- Market structure with one seller
- Economic system based on private ownership
- Unpaid work often done in households
- Economic behavior influenced by social norms
- Theory explaining social change through conflict
10 Clues: Exchange of goods and services • Market structure with one seller • Unpaid work often done in households • Measure of goods and services produced • Group of people sharing cultural traits • Study of wealth and resource distribution • Economic system based on private ownership • Economic behavior influenced by social norms • Social class defined by income and occupation • ...
Economics 2025-06-10
Across
- - An index measuring life expectancy, education, and per capita income.
- Commission- A government institution replaced by NITI Aayog in 2015.
- Budget - An annual financial statement by the government outlining expected revenue and expenditure.
- Deficit - The difference between the government’s total revenue and total expenditure.
- - A situation when a person is willing to work but is unable to find a job.
Down
- - The continuous rise in the general price level of goods and services.
- Aayog - The new policy think-tank of the Government of India formed in 2015
- - . A policy decision in 2016 to invalidate high-value currency notes in India.
- - The total value of all goods and services produced within a country in a year
- - The lack of basic necessities like food, shelter, and clothing.
10 Clues: - The lack of basic necessities like food, shelter, and clothing. • Commission- A government institution replaced by NITI Aayog in 2015. • - The continuous rise in the general price level of goods and services. • - An index measuring life expectancy, education, and per capita income. • ...
economics 2025-08-29
Across
- – The exchange of goods and services between people or countries.
- – The desire of buyers for a good or service.
- – The money required to make or buy something.
- – The amount of a good or service available to buy.
- – The rise in prices over time.
Down
- – A place where buyers and sellers meet.
- – When resources are limited but wants are unlimited.
- – Money paid to the government.
- – Payment to workers for their labor.
- – Money left over after costs are subtracted from revenue.
10 Clues: – Money paid to the government. • – The rise in prices over time. • – Payment to workers for their labor. • – A place where buyers and sellers meet. • – The desire of buyers for a good or service. • – The money required to make or buy something. • – The amount of a good or service available to buy. • – When resources are limited but wants are unlimited. • ...
Economics 2025-11-21
Across
- Chick-fil-A creates the BEST chicken sandwich!
- I needed to buy cleats for the soccer game
- the teacher ran out of pencils in her classroom
- I can choose what my business makes and how much I can sell it for!
- your own small business, like a pizzeria
- farmers rely on grocery stores to sell their crops
Down
- a piece of candy for a sticker
- synonym for job
- everybody wants the last jersey on the shelf!
- the library has an abundance of books
10 Clues: synonym for job • a piece of candy for a sticker • the library has an abundance of books • your own small business, like a pizzeria • I needed to buy cleats for the soccer game • everybody wants the last jersey on the shelf! • Chick-fil-A creates the BEST chicken sandwich! • the teacher ran out of pencils in her classroom • ...
Economics 2025-11-25
10 Clues: Money earned • Job to earn money • Buying and selling • Putting money aside • Buys goods/services • Business that sells items • Place where goods are exchanged • Something necessary for survival • Something desirable but not essential • Tools or machines used to produce goods
Economics 2025-12-01
Across
- A government-ordered ban on trade with a specific nation.
- When a country imports more goods than it exports
- A system that blends free-market and government involvement; the US uses this.
- The process that connects the economies of different countries through trade and technology
- An economic system where private individuals own businesses and make economic decisions.
Down
- Goods that a nation sells to other countries.
- A tax placed on imported goods.
- An economy where the government controls nearly all production and decisions.
- An economic system where the government plays a major role in distributing goods and services.
- Goods a nation buys from other countries.
10 Clues: A tax placed on imported goods. • Goods a nation buys from other countries. • Goods that a nation sells to other countries. • When a country imports more goods than it exports • A government-ordered ban on trade with a specific nation. • An economy where the government controls nearly all production and decisions. • ...
UofM Magazine 2023-08-21
Across
- Favorite colors
- Hall of Fame running back
- College of Nursing
- Jackson campus
- Elementary school
- First President
- Current President:
- Tallest building
- Fight song
Down
- Athletics conference
- Women’s basketball coach:
- Football coach
- Tailgating
- Live mascot
- Men’s basketball coach
- Costumed mascot
- Newspaper
- College of Business and Economics
- Hall of Fame wide receiver
- Law School campus
20 Clues: Newspaper • Tailgating • Fight song • Live mascot • Football coach • Jackson campus • Favorite colors • Costumed mascot • First President • Tallest building • Elementary school • Law School campus • College of Nursing • Current President: • Athletics conference • Men’s basketball coach • Hall of Fame running back • Women’s basketball coach: • Hall of Fame wide receiver • College of Business and Economics
Spanish learning chapter 2 2021-10-22
21 Clues: la casa • la mesa • la tiza • la silla • el reloj • el papel • la pluma • el libro • la física • la puerta • la química • la pizarra • la mochila • la ventana • la economía • la papelera • el trimestre • la biblioteca • la especialización • el/la_compañero/a_de_clase • la administración de empresas
Spanish learning chapter 2 2021-10-22
21 Clues: la casa • la mesa • la tiza • la silla • el reloj • el papel • la pluma • el libro • la física • la puerta • la química • la pizarra • la mochila • la ventana • la economía • la papelera • el trimestre • la biblioteca • la especialización • el/la_compañero/a_de_clase • la administración de empresas
cerenword17 2025-03-12
Across
- siyaset bilimi
- politik, siyasi
- üretmek
- siyasi, akıllıca, zeki, zekice
- hirsli
- iktisat (akademik)
- yatirimci
- kirli, kirletilmis
- üretim, imal etmek (sadece sanayi ile ilgili)
Down
- kirletmek
- Yatirim
- kirlilik
- donum noktası
- urun
- endustri, endüstriyel
- ekonomik, hesaplı, tasarruflu
- police
- uretici
- ekonomik, ucuz
- tutkulu, ihtiraslı
- Yatirim yapmak
- ekonomi
- sanayi, endüstri (urun üretmek)
23 Clues: urun • police • hirsli • Yatirim • uretici • üretmek • ekonomi • kirlilik • kirletmek • yatirimci • donum noktası • siyaset bilimi • ekonomik, ucuz • Yatirim yapmak • politik, siyasi • tutkulu, ihtiraslı • iktisat (akademik) • kirli, kirletilmis • endustri, endüstriyel • ekonomik, hesaplı, tasarruflu • siyasi, akıllıca, zeki, zekice • sanayi, endüstri (urun üretmek) • üretim, imal etmek (sadece sanayi ile ilgili)
Genes 2023-11-20
Economics Crossword 2016-03-08
Across
- making decisions according to what you feel is best.
- situation that occurs when there is not enough resources to meet human wants
- the benefit received from using one or more units of a good or service.
- things needed for survival
- What system do we use when we are deciding on what product to produce.
- something we do not need
- someone who purchases goods and services.
- the alternative that you give up when you make an economic choice.
- study of how people choose to use scarce resources to satisfy their wants.
- benefits that encourage people to do something.
- work that a person performs for another for payment.
Down
- benefit or satisfaction gained from the use of a good or service
- examining the costsand the expected benefits of a choice is an aid to decision making.
- what you give up by choosing the item that you did.
- someone who produces the goods or services.
- cost of using one or more units of a good or service.
- items used to get satisfaction
17 Clues: something we do not need • things needed for survival • items used to get satisfaction • someone who purchases goods and services. • someone who produces the goods or services. • benefits that encourage people to do something. • what you give up by choosing the item that you did. • making decisions according to what you feel is best. • ...
Macro Economics 2014-02-07
Across
- Who is the new CEO of Microsoft?
- Total output of the economy
- C + I + G + (X - M)= ???
- - Which is the economist on the back of a £20 note?
- The type of unemployment when people are between jobs
- The Index used to measure inflation that doesn't include mortgages
- Policy that uses interest rates
- Black _______ - Stocks Crashed September 16th 1992
Down
- What is the currency of Guatemala? (Don't cheat)
- - Warren Buffet is the CEO and largest shareholder of which company?
- How many economists does it take to change a light bulb?
- What is the currency of Vietnam?
- - Governer of the Bank of England before Mark Carney
- A persistent fall in the prices of goods and services
- Imports > Exports or Government Spending > Tax Revenue
- Policy that uses government spending and taxation
- Money comes into the country, goods/services go out
17 Clues: C + I + G + (X - M)= ??? • Total output of the economy • Policy that uses interest rates • Who is the new CEO of Microsoft? • What is the currency of Vietnam? • What is the currency of Guatemala? (Don't cheat) • Policy that uses government spending and taxation • Black _______ - Stocks Crashed September 16th 1992 • - Which is the economist on the back of a £20 note? • ...
Easy Economics 2014-05-16
Across
- anything, including service work that is produced through the use of resources.
- the leftover stuff, which is left after the required point is reached.
- a person who works on its own, predicting the risks and benefits of a certain business venture.
- economic activities where raw materials are manufactured, and new goods are made.
- the financial gain of a person or an organization; it is gained when there is more money earned than what is invested.
- goods that have to be with something else; goods that always go together; if the demand for one good rises or falls, the demand for the complement also rises or falls.
- capital one of the factors needed when producing a certain good or service, which works as a form of investment.
- a system that supplies or supports with utilities and wealth
Down
- a person who purchases goods or services
- the action of working in order to produce goods and services.
- the act of sharing the produced goods and services
- the buying of foreign goods and services.
- a type of tool used in trading goods and services, which people set a certain price for every goods or services they produce.
- anything, including stocks of money and staff, that can be used in order for a person or organization to work efficiently
- another word for shares, which is a piece of a certain company. As the company’s value rises, the price for each share of that company rises.
- the act of manufacturing raw materials to produce goods
- the selling of goods to foreign countries.
17 Clues: a person who purchases goods or services • the buying of foreign goods and services. • the selling of goods to foreign countries. • the act of sharing the produced goods and services • the act of manufacturing raw materials to produce goods • a system that supplies or supports with utilities and wealth • the action of working in order to produce goods and services. • ...
Economics Vocab 2021-10-15
Across
- all the natural resources that are used to produce goods and services.
- something that is necessary for survival (such as food and shelter)
- any human-made resource that is used to create other goods and services.
- all the alternatives we give up whenever we choose one course of action over another.
- a cost or benefit that motivates a decision or action by consumers, businesses or other participants in the economy
- The resources we use to produce goods and services are limited.
- of Production The resources used to produce goods and services; also known as production inputs or resources
- Human effort, including both physical and mental effort, used to produce goods and services.
- Cost the most desirable alternative given up as a result of a decision.
Down
- Possibilities Frontier the line on a production possibilities curve that shows the maximum possible output.
- The effort used to coordinate the factors of production--natural resources, labor, physical capital, and human capital--to produce and sell products.
- a measure of the benefit provided by a good or service to an economic agent
- a measure of net worth; that is, it is a measure of how much a person has in savings, investments, real estate and cash, less any debts.
- a term in economics that refers to the total satisfaction received from consuming a good or service
- a transaction in which no physical goods are transferred from the seller to the buyer.
- something that is desired.
- items that satisfy human wants and provide utility, for example, to a consumer making a purchase of a satisfying product.
17 Clues: something that is desired. • The resources we use to produce goods and services are limited. • something that is necessary for survival (such as food and shelter) • all the natural resources that are used to produce goods and services. • Cost the most desirable alternative given up as a result of a decision. • ...
Economics Crossword 2021-10-11
Across
- the financial and opportunity costs consumers pay when searching for a good or service
- a minimum price that an employer can pay a worker for an hour of labor
- describes any price or quantity not at equilibrium
- a system of allocating scarce goods and services using criteria other than price
- a minimum price for a good or service
- A sudden shortage of a good
- a maximum price that can legally be charged for a good or service
- situation in which quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied; excess demand
- a price ceiling placed on rent
Down
- when quantity demanded is more than quantity supplied
- a market in which goods are sold illegally
- the point at which quantity demanded and quantity supplied are equal
- situation is which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded; excess supply
- When quantity supplied is more than quantity demanded
- costs of production that affect people who have no control over how much of a good is produced
- a product that is popular for a short period of time
- the amount of goods a firm has on hand
17 Clues: A sudden shortage of a good • a price ceiling placed on rent • a minimum price for a good or service • the amount of goods a firm has on hand • a market in which goods are sold illegally • describes any price or quantity not at equilibrium • a product that is popular for a short period of time • when quantity demanded is more than quantity supplied • ...
Economics AOS2 2021-10-18
Across
- Policies set by governments to have a budget in equity and control tax rates and levels of spending
- A tax applied on goods and services and not on profits or income
- The type of poverty in which households receive less than average household incomes
- The value to be returned to a company's shareholders
- Goods or services that are unhealthy to consume and undesirable
- The worst level of poverty in which basic life requirements are not met
- The levels of income, wealth, comforts etc. that are provided to a society
Down
- Goods or services that are not bad to consume and are worthy of finance
- The efficiency state of the economy in which production cannot be increased without sacrificing the production of another good or service
- The economic state in which all resources are allocated and used effectively
- A measure of the income inequality in a country's economy
- The efficiency state of the economy in which all resources are allocated such that the maximum marginal benefit is received
- The state of a market being intervened and having some government supervision
- The state of having no job and not being able to earn an income
- Goods or services that are available to all members of the society
- The state of a market not being intervened and regulated by the govenment
- The uneven distribution of wealth and income in the economy
17 Clues: The value to be returned to a company's shareholders • A measure of the income inequality in a country's economy • The uneven distribution of wealth and income in the economy • The state of having no job and not being able to earn an income • Goods or services that are unhealthy to consume and undesirable • ...
Economics Vocabulary 2022-04-07
Across
- Goods and services are produced in better quality, quantity and speed when people focus on producing a few things instead of making everything they want by themselves
- The substance with which you make bread
- board, timber, or wood
- A relationship between countries in which they rely on one another for resources, goods, or services
- Exchange of goods and services
- to settle by discussing
- Arrangement of resources across Earth
- Limited quantities of resources to meet unlimited wants
- An amount that must be paid or spent to buy or obtain something
Down
- Advantages
- Weighing the costs and benefits of alternatives in making an economic decision
- A situation in which a good or service is produced at the lowest possible cost
- Exchange goods without involving money
- A rock that contains a large enough concentration of a mineral making it profitable to mine
- All the things used in producing goods and services
- More of something than is needed
- A block of hard material used in building
17 Clues: Advantages • board, timber, or wood • to settle by discussing • Exchange of goods and services • More of something than is needed • Arrangement of resources across Earth • Exchange goods without involving money • The substance with which you make bread • A block of hard material used in building • All the things used in producing goods and services • ...
Economics Vocabulary 2022-08-19
Across
- transation when 2 parties trade goods
- intangible act paid for buy buyer
- Item bought
- An activity use goods,labor,capital
- Division of resources
- satisfaction from good or service
- objects used in production
- Can live without and can't live without
Down
- assets of a company for production
- A way to exchange goods and services
- seperation of work into different tasks
- focus on one good or service to be best
- increased production of good or service
- how much output from given input
- commodity produced for buyer
- In short supply
- the value of all assets owned by etc.
17 Clues: Item bought • In short supply • Division of resources • objects used in production • commodity produced for buyer • how much output from given input • intangible act paid for buy buyer • satisfaction from good or service • assets of a company for production • An activity use goods,labor,capital • A way to exchange goods and services • transation when 2 parties trade goods • ...
Business/Economics 2023-08-24
Across
- An amount of money you pay to the government
- A person who owns shares
- Money you take that is then owed to another
- the supply and demand for houses
- Money you gain from a business
- An economy is the system for deciding how scarce resources are used
- A rise in prices
- Makes you a part-owner of a company
- Where you can buy things
Down
- A person or group who rules over a country
- A person who owns something
- Two or more people who own something
- Financial assets suddenly lose a large part of there value
- A raise in prices from a loan
- The work of somebody
- Durable produced goods that are used as productive inputs for further production
- Buys thing from businesses
17 Clues: A rise in prices • The work of somebody • A person who owns shares • Where you can buy things • Buys thing from businesses • A person who owns something • A raise in prices from a loan • Money you gain from a business • the supply and demand for houses • Makes you a part-owner of a company • Two or more people who own something • A person or group who rules over a country • ...
Economics Revision 2023-10-30
Across
- Bartering or trading
- of production Land,Labour,Capital,Enterprise
- Things that bring money into the economy
- The money that is being taken out of the economy and is not being reinjected
- Economic decsion making happens through the markets
- Analysis a form of analysis used to compare a series of options using criterion.
- a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced in a specific time period by a country or countries.
- have a desire to possess or do (something); wish for.
- wants Scenarios where people want to consume/purchase more and mroe items
- the state of being scarce or in short supply; shortage.
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- The general gradual devaluation of money and assets over time
- All activities undertaken for the purpose of the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services in a region or country
- Economic Problem the fundamental challenge facing all societies, which is how to satisfy unlimited wants and needs with limited resources.
- Resources and Businesses are owned by the government
- Things that are necessary for day to day life
- resources recources that are scarce
- Cost the loss of other alternatives when one alternative is chosen.
17 Clues: Bartering or trading • resources recources that are scarce • Things that bring money into the economy • Things that are necessary for day to day life • of production Land,Labour,Capital,Enterprise • Economic decsion making happens through the markets • Resources and Businesses are owned by the government • have a desire to possess or do (something); wish for. • ...
Economics 1 2024-04-02
Across
- to use something to one’s advantage
- to suggest a theory, idea, etc. as a basic principle from which a further idea is formed or developed
- having or showing practical knowledge and experience
- hard to believe because it seems to be illogical
- a way of calculating, judging, or deciding something in a complicated situation
- normal, accepted or used by many people
- to get better, to comeback to a good position after hard times
- strongly and without stopping
- done against someone because he or she has harmed you
Down
- producing good results
- never having happened or existed in the past:
- to deal with (a complicated or difficult task)
- a clear and full explanation of an idea or theory
- to come together or bring people together to support an idea
- innoving thinking of someone or something as better than that person or thing really is
- to experience something bad as a result of actions you have taken
- a small but important detail
17 Clues: producing good results • a small but important detail • strongly and without stopping • to use something to one’s advantage • normal, accepted or used by many people • never having happened or existed in the past: • to deal with (a complicated or difficult task) • hard to believe because it seems to be illogical • a clear and full explanation of an idea or theory • ...
Economics 1 2024-08-13
Across
- a point of rest
- Rise in prices
- - AD less than AS
- planned saving and investment
- - One additional
- Number of times increase the investment results in income
- addition to capital stock
- Willingness to consume
- Function Relation between consumption and income
Down
- independent
- Movement of people from one place to another for jobs
- residual income after consumption
- Use of resources
- increases earning capacity
- difference between loan amount and asset mortgaged
- Convertibility into cash
- drain Migration of skilled personnel
17 Clues: independent • Rise in prices • a point of rest • Use of resources • - One additional • - AD less than AS • Willingness to consume • Convertibility into cash • addition to capital stock • increases earning capacity • planned saving and investment • residual income after consumption • drain Migration of skilled personnel • Function Relation between consumption and income • ...
Economics Crossword 2023-03-03
Across
- the cost added by producing one additional unit of a product or service.
- a tax imposed by a government on goods and services imported from other countries that serves to increase the price and make imports less desirable, or at least less competitive, versus domestic goods and services.
- scarce or in short supply
- a fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute.
- unemployment resulting from industrial reorganization, typically due to technological change, rather than fluctuations in supply or demand.
- a condition where the quantity demanded is greater than the quantity supplied at the market price.
- any instrument, agent, etc., employed in the production of goods and services.
- the unemployment which exists in any economy due to people being in the process of moving from one job to another.
- a situation where workers are unemployed at certain times of the year when demand has decreased.
Down
- the state in which market supply and demand balance each other, and as a result prices become stable.
- a graph that shows all of the different combinations of output that can be produced given current resources and technology.
- the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen
- the additional benefit arising from a unit increase in a particular activity.
- an association of two or more people as partners.
- someone who owns an unincorporated business by himself or herself
- the amount of an asset or resource that exceeds the portion that's actively utilized.
- a business entity that is owned by its shareholder(s), who elect a board of directors to oversee the organization's activities.
17 Clues: scarce or in short supply • an association of two or more people as partners. • someone who owns an unincorporated business by himself or herself • the cost added by producing one additional unit of a product or service. • the additional benefit arising from a unit increase in a particular activity. • ...
Africa Economics 2022-11-08
Across
- Man-made materials (factories, machines, technology, etc.)
- level of wealth and material comfort available to a person.
- taxes placed on imported goods.
- a political barrier to trade.
- GDP per person.
- when a country specializes, it focuses its resources on the production of a limited variety of goodsandservices the ones it can produce the best
- economy- economic decisions are made based on the changes in prices that occur as buyers & sellers interact in the marketplace.
- a person who takes a risk and starts a new business.
Down
- a limit on the quantity of an item brought into a country.
- all economic decisions are based on customs, traditions, & beliefs of the past.
- a combination of both traditional and command economies.
- the total dollar value of all goods and services produced in one year.
- a market where buyers and sellers have the right to sell and buy by their own preference or refuse to if they so choose.
- percentage of adults who can read and naturalresources raw materials from nature.
- Skills, education, and training of the workforce.
- all economic decisions are made by the government.
- a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts.
17 Clues: GDP per person. • a political barrier to trade. • taxes placed on imported goods. • Skills, education, and training of the workforce. • all economic decisions are made by the government. • a person who takes a risk and starts a new business. • a combination of both traditional and command economies. • a limit on the quantity of an item brought into a country. • ...
Economics Crossword 2021-10-12
Across
- something that is desired
- the amount of physical, mental, and social effort used to produce goods and services in an economy.
- The act of starring ones own business to sell goods or services.
- something necessary to survive
- TOTAL satisfaction from a good or service
- cost, potential loss when an opportunity is missed
- items that satisfy humans
Down
- the demand for a goods or services is greater than the availability of them
- liquid assets. Cash...
- satisfy humans without physical goods
- money
- Resources, all of the resources used to make goods and services
- off, making one choice means something else is lost
- Possibilities Frontier, it shoes how much of two things can be produced with the resources available.
- anything that motivates a person to do something
- worth of a good or service
- naturally occurring resources
17 Clues: money • liquid assets. Cash... • something that is desired • items that satisfy humans • worth of a good or service • naturally occurring resources • something necessary to survive • satisfy humans without physical goods • TOTAL satisfaction from a good or service • anything that motivates a person to do something • cost, potential loss when an opportunity is missed • ...
Economics Crossword 2021-10-15
Across
- the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen
- something essential for survival
- all natural resources used to produce goods and services
- measurement of the benefit derived from a good or service to an individual or a company
- the natural, human, and capital re- sources used to make goods and services
- Risk taking involved in starting a new business or introducing a new product
- Usefulness to a person
Down
- a line on a production possibilities curve that shows the maximum possible output an economy can produce
- the principle that limited amounts of goods and services are available to meet high demands
- something people desire that is non-essential
- the effort people devote to tasks for which they are paid
- payment or concession to stimulate greater output or investment
- the act of giving up one benefit in order to gain another, greater benefit
- the physical objects that someone produces
- accumulation of valuable economic resources that can be measured in terms of either real goods or money value
- the actions or activities that one person performs for another
- Previously manufactured goods used to make another goods and services
17 Clues: Usefulness to a person • something essential for survival • the physical objects that someone produces • something people desire that is non-essential • all natural resources used to produce goods and services • the effort people devote to tasks for which they are paid • the actions or activities that one person performs for another • ...
Economics Crossword 2023-04-24
Across
- the things that people sell
- an activity that someone is paid to perform
- the money received in payment for goods or services (rent, wages, interest)
- an economic system where businesses and property are privately owned. The price and amount of goods traded are based on supply and demand and has little government regulation.
- the right to make decisions for an individual’s business or property
- the way people earn and spend money
- the name of Adam Smith’s idea of a free market economy
- (communism)- an economic system where property and business are owned by the government. The government makes choices about producing and pricing. The consumers have no choice.
Down
- individuals own businesses and property rather than the government
- people or businesses offering goods for sale
- the person who makes the goods
- a person who buys goods and services
- the government’s right to take private property for public use as long as they pay a fair price to the owner
- the money left over after all expenses are paid
- the amount the seller has to sell at a particular price
- what consumers are willing to buy at a given price
- when different businesses compete for consumers’ money such as Walmart v. Target or Microsoft v. Apple.
17 Clues: the things that people sell • the person who makes the goods • the way people earn and spend money • a person who buys goods and services • an activity that someone is paid to perform • people or businesses offering goods for sale • the money left over after all expenses are paid • what consumers are willing to buy at a given price • ...
Economics Review 2023-05-16
Across
- A government's source of revenue
- The type of policy conducted by Congress and the President
- A natural resource like oil or timber
- Structure of income tax in the U.S.
- A good sold to another country
- Market with a few sellers
- A good that is consumed with another good
- Key to economic growth
Down
- Incentive for sellers
- 2+ consecutive quarters of falling GDP
- Business that gets help from a parent company
- A human-made resource
- Business owned by 2 or more people
- Study of scarcity and choices
- Gross ____________ Product
- Market with only 1 seller
- The opportunity ______ is the next best alternative
17 Clues: Incentive for sellers • A human-made resource • Key to economic growth • Market with only 1 seller • Market with a few sellers • Gross ____________ Product • Study of scarcity and choices • A good sold to another country • A government's source of revenue • Business owned by 2 or more people • Structure of income tax in the U.S. • A natural resource like oil or timber • ...
Economics puzzle 2021-12-02
Across
- this type of economic system involves both the government and private sector making decisions in the economy
- this type of capital is need to purchase assets
- this examines the next best alternative that is given up whenever a choice is made
- these are the resources needed for production to take place
- total cost is equal to fixed cost plus ________
- this type of capital is used for the day to day operations of the business
- this is where a person is doing a job because it is what he or she is good at
- this type of opportunity cost means the same amount of one good is given up whenever production of other good is increased
Down
- this cost looks at the change in total cost when one extra unit is produced
- this refers to the number of persons available for productive activities
- this is the study of how scarce resources are allocated
- natural disaster is likely to cause the PPF to shift to the _______________
- there are _______ factors of production
- this exist since there is limited resources but unlimited wants
- the three sectors of the economy are households _____ and government
- this type of labour does not require any form of formal training and education
- this is a measure of the rate of production
17 Clues: there are _______ factors of production • this is a measure of the rate of production • this type of capital is need to purchase assets • total cost is equal to fixed cost plus ________ • this is the study of how scarce resources are allocated • these are the resources needed for production to take place • ...
Welfare Economics 2023-09-20
Across
- difference between the maximum MTP and a price of any good
- ill health due to pollution
- Total Net Benefits
- Benefit of consuming one additional unit of a product
- Benefit to all consumers in a market
- Study of how allocation of resources affects economic well-being
- resource allocation maximising total surplus received by all members of society
- Regulation that imposes a minimum price for a good
- The cost of producing one additional unit
Down
- inefficiency of an unregulated market to produce a socially efficient outcome
- The property of distributing prosperity uniformly among member of society
- maximum amount a rational consumer may pay
- An increase or decrease of an unit
- A reduction in social welfare as a result of market regulation
- French for Leave alone
- net benefits received by producers through selling a product
- regulation that specified the maximum price for a product
17 Clues: Total Net Benefits • French for Leave alone • ill health due to pollution • An increase or decrease of an unit • Benefit to all consumers in a market • The cost of producing one additional unit • maximum amount a rational consumer may pay • Regulation that imposes a minimum price for a good • Benefit of consuming one additional unit of a product • ...
Economics Vocabulary 2024-05-01
Across
- Money paid regularly at a particular rate for the use of money lent
- An arrangement that allows consumers to acquire goods now and purchase them later
- The study of how consumers, workers, and firms interact
- A few providers of a good or service
- Someone who creates or sells good and services
- The tension between unlimited wants and limited resources
- The sole provider of a good or service
- The federal agency that collects taxes
- The desire to own something and the ability to pay for it
- The total value of all newly produced goods and services made in a country during a given time period
Down
- Take-home pay
- Whatever you give up to do something
- Someone who purchases goods and services
- The study of production, employment, and prices on a nationwide scale
- The study of people and their choices
- Pay before taxes/deductions
- The amount of goods or services available
17 Clues: Take-home pay • Pay before taxes/deductions • Whatever you give up to do something • A few providers of a good or service • The study of people and their choices • The sole provider of a good or service • The federal agency that collects taxes • Someone who purchases goods and services • The amount of goods or services available • ...
Business Economics 2025-07-16
Across
- Study of individual economic units
- Desires backed by ability to pay
- Total amount producers are willing to sell
- The law explaining inverse relation between price and demand
- point where budget line & IC are tangent
- An individual who uses goods and services
- The curve which shows all combinations of two giving same level of satisfaction
Down
- Goods consumed together
- Price * Quantity = Total ___
- When demand changes more than proportionately with price
- Vertical demand curve shows it is
- Demand curve usually slopes
- Supply curve usually slopes
- The study of how businesses allocate resources
- MACROECONOMICS
- Measures responsiveness of quantity demanded to price change
- Demand of necessity goods is generally
17 Clues: MACROECONOMICS • Goods consumed together • Demand curve usually slopes • Supply curve usually slopes • Price * Quantity = Total ___ • Desires backed by ability to pay • Vertical demand curve shows it is • Study of individual economic units • Demand of necessity goods is generally • point where budget line & IC are tangent • An individual who uses goods and services • ...
Business Economics 2025-07-16
Across
- Total amount producers are willing to sell
- The curve which shows all combinations of two giving same level of satisfaction
- Desires backed by ability to pay
- Demand of necessity goods is generally
- An individual who uses goods and services
- Vertical demand curve shows it is
- MACROECONOMICS
- When demand changes more than proportionately with price
Down
- Demand curve usually slopes
- The law explaining inverse relation between price and demand
- The study of how businesses allocate resources
- Supply curve usually slopes
- Price * Quantity = Total ___
- Study of individual economic units
- Measures responsiveness of quantity demanded to price change
- point where budget line & IC are tangent
- Goods consumed together
17 Clues: MACROECONOMICS • Goods consumed together • Demand curve usually slopes • Supply curve usually slopes • Price * Quantity = Total ___ • Desires backed by ability to pay • Vertical demand curve shows it is • Study of individual economic units • Demand of necessity goods is generally • point where budget line & IC are tangent • An individual who uses goods and services • ...
Business Economics 2025-07-16
Across
- Supply curve usually slopes
- Price * Quantity = Total ___
- Total amount producers are willing to sell
- An individual who uses goods and services
- Desires backed by ability to pay
- Vertical demand curve shows it is
- MACROECONOMICS
- Goods consumed together
- Demand of necessity goods is generally
- When demand changes more than proportionately with price
Down
- The curve which shows all combinations of two giving same level of satisfaction
- Demand curve usually slopes
- Measures responsiveness of quantity demanded to price change
- point where budget line & IC are tangent
- The study of how businesses allocate resources
- Study of individual economic units
- The law explaining inverse relation between price and demand
17 Clues: MACROECONOMICS • Goods consumed together • Supply curve usually slopes • Demand curve usually slopes • Price * Quantity = Total ___ • Desires backed by ability to pay • Vertical demand curve shows it is • Study of individual economic units • Demand of necessity goods is generally • point where budget line & IC are tangent • An individual who uses goods and services • ...
Springfield Economics 2025-09-19
Across
- Making products like plastics, food, or machine parts in factories.
- The largest hospital and employer in Springfield.
- New ideas or inventions that change the way people work and live.
- The system of how people use resources, make goods, and provide services.
- Moving people and goods by bus, train, car, or river.
- Buying and selling goods, whether in a local store or online.
- Hospitals, doctors, nurses, and medical workers who keep people healthy.
- Springfield Public Schools - another larger employer in the city.
- Historic Springfield site where firearms were made for the U.S. military.
Down
- A place like MGM where people go for games, shows, and jobs in entertainment.
- When workers and jobs all rely on each other.
- Jobs where people help others instead of making goods, like teachers or bus drivers.
- An annual holiday light display in Springfield that draws many visitors.
- Springfield’s hub where buses and trains connect.
- Payments received by employees for labor provided.
- Visitors who come for museums, sports, or entertainment and spend money in the city.
- The group of people living and working together in Springfield.
17 Clues: When workers and jobs all rely on each other. • The largest hospital and employer in Springfield. • Springfield’s hub where buses and trains connect. • Payments received by employees for labor provided. • Moving people and goods by bus, train, car, or river. • Buying and selling goods, whether in a local store or online. • ...
Classic Board Games etc. 2021-12-14
24 Clues: Sunk • Pizza • Words • Rodent • Sweets • Topple • Charades • In A Row • Settlers • Economics • Dice Game • 64 Squares • Up and Down • Moving Limbs • Random Facts • Bubbled Dice • Simple Chess • Move an army • Lettered Dice • Murder Mystery • Career and Money • Thirteen ailments • Four colored pawns • Five Hundred Points
Unit 1 Vocab Revised 2025-10-21
Across
- A worldview that shapes the way an individual views environmental issues
- A viewpoint that puts ecology and nature as central to humanity
- natural resources that can supply a natural income of goods or services
- a report completed before development to assess the environmental, social and economic impacts of the project, predicting and evaluating possible impacts
- the area of land and water required to sustainably provide all resources at the rate at which they are being consumed by a given population
- A viewpoint that argues that technological developments provide solutions to environmental problems
- Less economically developed country
- an estimate of an ecosystem's production of natural resources
- the yield obtained from natural resources
- the use and management of resources that allows full natural replacement of the resources exploited and full recovery of the ecosystems affected by their extraction and use
Down
- development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
- the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.
- A viewpoint that argues that humans must sustainably manage the global system
- More economically developed country
- the addition of a substance or an agent to an environment through human activity that has a negative impact on the environment
15 Clues: More economically developed country • Less economically developed country • the yield obtained from natural resources • an estimate of an ecosystem's production of natural resources • A viewpoint that puts ecology and nature as central to humanity • natural resources that can supply a natural income of goods or services • ...
4Q SPS Contest - 5 drivers of OJTZ 2022-12-05
Across
- How many Life Saving Rules are there in CPSC
- What needs to be performed prior to driving the forklift?
- Ensure a ______ permit is issued when required
- Work __________ or not at all
- Always ___________ environmental / safety compliance information accurately and on time
- Always __________ all safe/environmental work practices/procedures and act to stop unsafe conditions and actions
Down
- Never __________ or compromise a dedicated system
- Always identify if there is any ___________ before proceeding with any task
- ______ energy Isolation before beginning work
- Stay out of the “line of __________” and never reach under a elevated load
- Never operate equipment ________ of design or environmental limits.
- Protect yourself from a _____________ when working at heights
12 Clues: Work __________ or not at all • How many Life Saving Rules are there in CPSC • ______ energy Isolation before beginning work • Ensure a ______ permit is issued when required • Never __________ or compromise a dedicated system • What needs to be performed prior to driving the forklift? • Protect yourself from a _____________ when working at heights • ...
engineering puzzel 2021-04-05
Environmental Issues Crossword Puzzle 2021-03-21
Across
- One of the biggest environmental problems in Indonesia
- One way to deal with plastic waste
- The most polluted river in the world
- One of the animals that eat garbage/trash
- One of the causes of global warming which is mostly produced by vehicles and factories
- one of the victims of plastic waste in the ocean
- One of the biggest organization that deals with environmental issues
Down
- The causes of floods and landslides
- a building formed to avoid and treat plants against various kinds of weather
- An inseparable reciprocal relationship between living things and their environment
- One of the biggest environmental issues
- someone who doesn't eat meat
12 Clues: someone who doesn't eat meat • One way to deal with plastic waste • The causes of floods and landslides • The most polluted river in the world • One of the biggest environmental issues • One of the animals that eat garbage/trash • one of the victims of plastic waste in the ocean • One of the biggest environmental problems in Indonesia • ...
Economics Vocabulary 2021-01-10
Across
- buying and selling goods and services
- money used to exchange goods and services
- to produce, consume, and trade goods and services
- when the effects of an economic event affect something unrelated to the event
- goods and services leaving the country
- an economy based on customs, habits, family, religion, and tradition
- buys goods and services to use
- a tax put on on an import or export
- a combination of command and market economies
Down
- the number limit of items in a trade exchange
- makes goods and services to sell
- goods and services entering the country
- when something else is affected by the production and consumption of goods and services
- an economy where the producers and consumers make the decisions
- to stop trading goods and services with another country
- the total value of goods and services produced in a country during a year
- an economy where the government makes all economic decisions
17 Clues: buys goods and services to use • makes goods and services to sell • a tax put on on an import or export • buying and selling goods and services • goods and services leaving the country • goods and services entering the country • money used to exchange goods and services • the number limit of items in a trade exchange • a combination of command and market economies • ...
Economics Review 2024-04-22
Across
- Day of your test.
- To move goods to the consumer.
- To make
- Things people do for others
- Type of economy where people have most freedom.
- No trading at all.
- Tax
- The study of how people produce, distribute and consume things.
Down
- Economy that government makes the decisions.
- A penalty
- To use
- Money
- Trading between different countries.
- Name of model that show how money/goods travel.
- Limit on quantity that can be traded.
- Economy that is made up of more than one type.
- Type of economic system we have in the US.
- Items
18 Clues: Tax • Money • Items • To use • To make • A penalty • Day of your test. • No trading at all. • Things people do for others • To move goods to the consumer. • Trading between different countries. • Limit on quantity that can be traded. • Type of economic system we have in the US. • Economy that government makes the decisions. • Economy that is made up of more than one type. • ...
Economics Crossword 2024-07-26
Across
- Economic system where resources are publicly owned
- Country with market economy
- Currency exchange rate
- Economic system where resources are allocated based on tradition
- His ideological foundation for many command economies
- Trade barrier
- Economic system where the government controls resources
- Global economic organization
Down
- Agreement to reduce trade barriers
- Economic system where resources are privately owned
- Economic system with no government intervention
- Economic theory of Adam Smith
- Country with planned economy
- U.S. Trade partner
- Economic indicator
- International trade agreement
- U.S. Economic system
17 Clues: Trade barrier • U.S. Trade partner • Economic indicator • U.S. Economic system • Currency exchange rate • Country with market economy • Country with planned economy • Global economic organization • Economic theory of Adam Smith • International trade agreement • Agreement to reduce trade barriers • Economic system with no government intervention • ...
Economics Vocabulary 2021-10-13
Across
- A transaction in which no physical goods are transferred from the seller to the buyer.
- resource that encompasses The natural resources used in production.
- A curve illustrating the varying amounts of two products that can be produced when both depend on the same finite resources.
- something needed to survive
- Natural human,and capital re- sources used to make goods and services.
- liquid assets
- The total satisfaction received from consuming a good or service.
- Anything that motivates a person to do something.
Down
- Demand for a good or service is greater than the availability of the good or service.
- The general body of wage earners.
- Items that add some kind of benefit to the lives of the people who consume them.
- Aggregates capital and labor in order to produce goods or services for profit.
- something that is desired
- The fact that budgeting inevitably involves sacrificing some of X to get more of Y.
- The measurement of the benefit derived from a good or service to an individual or a company
- The value of the next-best alternative when a decision is made; it's what is given up.
- An accumulation of valuable economic resources that can be measured in terms of either real goods or money value.
17 Clues: liquid assets • something that is desired • something needed to survive • The general body of wage earners. • Anything that motivates a person to do something. • The total satisfaction received from consuming a good or service. • resource that encompasses The natural resources used in production. • Natural human,and capital re- sources used to make goods and services. • ...
economics 6.3 2021-10-12
Across
- a minimum price for a good or service
- cost of production that affect people who have no control over how much of a good id produced
- a situation in which a good or service is unavailable; excess demand
- when quantity supplied is not equal to quantity demanded in the market
- the point at which quantity demanded and quantity supplied are equal
- a short-lived trend without basis in the object's qualities; a craze.
- when quantity supplied is more than quantity demanded
- a sudden shortage of a good
- when quantity demanded is more than quantity supplied
- a market in which goods are sold illegally
- a complete list of items such as property, goods in stock, or the contents of a building.
Down
- a maximum price that can be legally charged for a good or service
- a system of allocating scarce goods and services using criteria other than price
- situation in which the quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded; excess supply
- a minimum price that an employer can pay a worker for an hour of labor
- the financial and opportunity costs as a result of inconveniences with supply
- a price ceiling placed on rent
17 Clues: a sudden shortage of a good • a price ceiling placed on rent • a minimum price for a good or service • a market in which goods are sold illegally • when quantity supplied is more than quantity demanded • when quantity demanded is more than quantity supplied • a maximum price that can be legally charged for a good or service • ...
Business Economics 2025-07-16
Across
- An individual who uses goods and services
- Supply curve usually slopes
- The curve which shows all combinations of two giving same level of satisfaction
- Total amount producers are willing to sell
- Point where budget line & IC are tangent
- When demand changes more than proportionately with price
- MACROECONOMICS
- Demand curve usually slopes
Down
- Study of individual economic units
- Desires backed by ability to pay
- Vertical demand curve shows it is
- Measures responsiveness of quantity demanded to price change
- Price * Quantity = Total ___
- The law explaining inverse relation between price and demand
- Goods consumed together
- The study of how businesses allocate resources
- Demand of necessity goods is generally
17 Clues: MACROECONOMICS • Goods consumed together • Supply curve usually slopes • Demand curve usually slopes • Price * Quantity = Total ___ • Desires backed by ability to pay • Vertical demand curve shows it is • Study of individual economic units • Demand of necessity goods is generally • Point where budget line & IC are tangent • An individual who uses goods and services • ...
Economics Revision 2025-08-15
Across
- They are brave and confident when trying new things
- Is when a country, business or persons decides
- When the Goverment takes your hard earned cash
- What you lose
- at a certain location
- Selling one of the two possible types of things
- Work When a company hires an employee for a set amount of time, and these people normally struggle to get loans for a home
- only produce one product
- This people receive an inheritance
Down
- When a company uses techniques to achieve more sales
- These people see a problem and fix it
- This word is required to be given by an employer
- A seesaw that expresses the difference between work and home life
- Things you do for your self esteem and mental happiness
- Cards Is a way of tracking and rewarding customers for consistently
- The main way rich make money without owning a company
- Is the state of something in high demand but slow
17 Clues: What you lose • at a certain location • only produce one product • This people receive an inheritance • These people see a problem and fix it • Is when a country, business or persons decides • When the Goverment takes your hard earned cash • Selling one of the two possible types of things • This word is required to be given by an employer • ...
economics crossword 2022-09-15
Across
- alternatives choices
- of how analysts show things to the public
- an accumulation of tangible things with lots of value
- looks at the why and how
- are the people that take the risks and come up with the ideas
- the combined work of people
- condition where unlimited wants face limited resources
- things that we must have to survive
- things we don't need but would like to have
- something that is useful and provides satisfaction to wants and needs
- a good that is not tangible
Down
- Land, Labor, Capitol, entrepreneurs
- are people who buy finished products like clothes and shoes
- is the study of how people try to satisfy wants with scarce resources
- the tools or machines that are used in making something
- _______ goods ex: food, clothing, shoes
- natural given resources
17 Clues: alternatives choices • natural given resources • looks at the why and how • the combined work of people • a good that is not tangible • Land, Labor, Capitol, entrepreneurs • things that we must have to survive • _______ goods ex: food, clothing, shoes • of how analysts show things to the public • things we don't need but would like to have • ...
2023-03-30
Across
- The ___ we breathe
- Critically endangered California native
- Methodical study of the material world
- Grass or clean energy
- Energy from the sun
- "Take ___ pictures, leave ___ footprints"
- Earth's UV shield
- Like Don Quixote's foe
- Environmental long-term planning
- 2006 documentary: "Who Killed the ___?"
- Established 1970; _.P.A.
Down
- National Parks' father
- The ___ we drink
- Audobon Society obsession
- Landscape; scenery
- 2023 Earth Day slogan: "___ Our Planet"
- Place to grow plants at home
- The blue marble
- Type of energy, as from Folsom Dam
- Fertilizer, or how to make it
- The ___ that feeds us
- Fuzzy flying pollinators
- Largest river in California
- At the north and south pole
- Reduce, Reuse, ___
- For planting, or giving a hug
26 Clues: The blue marble • The ___ we drink • Earth's UV shield • The ___ we breathe • Landscape; scenery • Reduce, Reuse, ___ • Energy from the sun • Grass or clean energy • The ___ that feeds us • National Parks' father • Like Don Quixote's foe • Fuzzy flying pollinators • Established 1970; _.P.A. • Audobon Society obsession • Largest river in California • At the north and south pole • ...
EOY Crossword Puzzle 2025-04-29
Across
- Sharing information about hazards.
- Preventing harm.
- Well-being.
- Reacting to an emergency.
- Quality Purity of water.
- Safety gear.
- Safeguarding against harm.
- Set of rules.
- Immediate action needed.
- Surrounding conditions.
- Checking for compliance.
- Contamination of the environment.
- Health condition.
- Stopping harm before it happens.
- Quality Cleanliness of the air.
Down
- Maintaining resources for the future.
- Likelihood of harm.
- Following rules.
- Management Handling and disposal of waste.
- Potential danger.
- Step-by-step actions.
- Chemical safety info.
- Teaching safety.
- Survey Assessing environmental conditions.
- Physical harm.
- Learning safety procedures.
- Airflow to refresh indoor air.
- Harmful or poisonous.
- Managing hazards.
- Air Quality Air quality inside buildings.
30 Clues: Well-being. • Safety gear. • Set of rules. • Physical harm. • Following rules. • Preventing harm. • Teaching safety. • Potential danger. • Managing hazards. • Health condition. • Likelihood of harm. • Step-by-step actions. • Chemical safety info. • Harmful or poisonous. • Surrounding conditions. • Quality Purity of water. • Immediate action needed. • Checking for compliance. • ...
Environmental Lawyer Crossword 2017-03-19
Across
- a person appointed to act for another in business or legal matters
- a legal action especially one to be decided in a court of law
- culpable of or responsible for a specified wrongdoing
- a person who practices or studies law; an attorney or a counselor
- relating to crime
- not making or conducted primarily to make a profit
- the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions
- laws considered collectively
- doctor post graduate degree for an environmental lawyer
- relating to ordinary citizens and their concerns, as distinct from military or ecceliastical matters
- the governing body of a nation, state, or community
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- an assembly of people, especially the members of a society of committee, for discussion or entertainment
- under graduate degree for an envrionmental lawyer
- a course or principal of action adapted or proposed by the government, party, business, or individual
- a small mallet with which an auctioneer, a judge, or the chair of a meeting hits a surface to call for attention or order
- of, by, or appropriate to a court or judge
- the surroundings in which a person, plant, or animal lives
- relating to or using analysis or logical reasoning
- the place or room in which a court of law meets
- not guilty of a crime or offense
20 Clues: relating to crime • laws considered collectively • not guilty of a crime or offense • of, by, or appropriate to a court or judge • the place or room in which a court of law meets • under graduate degree for an envrionmental lawyer • relating to or using analysis or logical reasoning • not making or conducted primarily to make a profit • ...
ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS, YO 2013-09-09
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- methane produced can be used as a fuel and the waste later used as fertilizzer or soil conditioner
- / is a compound used in refrigeration and spray cans that break down ozone. this chemical is very stable and remain in the atmosphere for 100's of years.
- / the measure of the amount of dissolved oxygen required to break down the organic material in a given volume of water
- Fuel / fuels derived from organic matter that has been fossilized (oil).
- / addition of excess nutrients (usually phosphates and nitrates from detergents, fertilizers, swage, etc).to freshwater ecosystem.
- / Organic waste put into anaerobic digesters
- / An excess amount of this nutrient causes eutrophication
- / Adding powdered limestone to neutralize the acid levels in lakes
- is taken to a suitable site and buried there
- / addition to the biosphere of a substance (including heat) by humans, at a rate faster than it can be rendered harmless by the environment... and which seriously affect the health of organisms.
- pollution / secondary air pollution
- / Producing less waste
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- / Collecting and separating waste materials and
- Index / a scale (1-10) that gives a measure of the quality of an ecosystem by the presence and abundance of the species living in it.
- / An non-reactive gaseous compound of carbon with bromine and other halogens, used in fire extinguishers known to damage the ozone layer
- them for reuse
- / Burning the waste at high temperatures of up to 2000°C
- Pollution / pollutants emitted directly (chimney, exhaust pipe, etc)
- / A report prepared BEFORE a development project that will change the use of land. (acronym)
- / An excess amount of this nutrient causes eutrophication
- / The main method of disposal
- species / plants and animals that show something about the environment by their presence, absence, abundance or scarcity
- Dioxide / Primary air pollutant that can react with other substances and create acid compounds
23 Clues: them for reuse • / Producing less waste • / The main method of disposal • pollution / secondary air pollution • / Organic waste put into anaerobic digesters • is taken to a suitable site and buried there • / Collecting and separating waste materials and • / Burning the waste at high temperatures of up to 2000°C • / An excess amount of this nutrient causes eutrophication • ...
Environmental Keywords Crossword 2013-10-09
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- Furry skin a gives birth to live young.
- An animal that eats plants.
- Usually plants starts off a food chain.
- Where an animal lives.
- Lay eggs in water and have soft, moist skin with no scales.
- Breathes with gills and lives underwater.
- An animal that eats other animals.
- When a bird moves to another place.
- Invertebrates with one foot.
- Used to indentify things.
- Dry and scaly, and lays eggs.
- Animal without a backbone.
- Any living thing.
- Another word for damp.
- Animal with a backbone.
- What animals have to enable them to survive in their habitat.
- Close to extinction.
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- An animal that kills other animals for meat.
- A creature with an exoskeleton and a segmented body.
- Living weight.
- A process by which subtances add up in the body of a living thing.
- An animal that needs to eat.
- When an animal goes to sleep for the winter.
- Has feather and wings.
- Variety of organisms in a region.
- The ability to blend into surroundings.
- The name for an animal who is being hunted.
- An animal that eats plants and animals.
28 Clues: Living weight. • Any living thing. • Close to extinction. • Where an animal lives. • Has feather and wings. • Another word for damp. • Animal with a backbone. • Used to indentify things. • Animal without a backbone. • An animal that eats plants. • An animal that needs to eat. • Invertebrates with one foot. • Dry and scaly, and lays eggs. • Variety of organisms in a region. • ...
Environmental Science Introduction 2021-09-09
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- A carbon ___________ is something that puts carbon into the atmosphere.
- Humans have caused this by changing the makeup of our atmosphere.
- This refers to nonliving things.
- This is the data we collect using our senses.
- Something we use.
- This is where living things are found.
- This is the layer of gases surrounding a planet.
- The study of how living things interact with each other and their environments.
- A carbon ____ is something that removes carbon from the atmosphere.
- These are the assumptions or conclusions we make based on observations.
- Something the earth provides us that we want or need.
- These are services the natural world provides us for free.
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- A type of resource that won't run out.
- These are species that humans added into an ecosystem where they did not live before.
- Your ecological _____________ is a measure of how many global hectares are needed to produce enough resources for your current lifestyle.
- This is the earth's crust and upper mantle.
- The removal of many trees.
- Another term for overconsumption, this is when people use more of a resource than the earth can replenish.
- A resource that is being used faster than more is being produced, meaning we will eventually run out.
- This is all the water in and on our planet.
- This refers to living things.
- The spreading of dry, unproductive landscapes.
22 Clues: Something we use. • The removal of many trees. • This refers to living things. • This refers to nonliving things. • A type of resource that won't run out. • This is where living things are found. • This is the earth's crust and upper mantle. • This is all the water in and on our planet. • This is the data we collect using our senses. • ...
Environmental Systems Vocabulary 2021-09-07
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- make their own food
- also called biological community, in biology, an interacting group of various species in a common location
- eat nonliving things
- is an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
- must eat food
- eat both nonliving and living
- living.
- amount of one species in an ecosystem
- is a kind of action that occurs as two or more objects have an effect upon one another
- ample, abundant, bountiful describe a more than adequate supply of something. Plentiful suggests an over-adequate quantity: a plentiful supply.
- eats living things
- To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil
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- The meaning of Perish is To die or be destroyed or killed.
- Consumer 1st consumers
- eats dead animals
- individual living thing.
- Web what eats what
- deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
- nonliving.
- Chain shows energy flow from sun -> producers-> consumers
- Consumer 2nd consumer
- is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- level- position of an organism in a food chain, food web, or an ecological pyramid
- brakes down organic material
- n ecology, the term “niche” describes the role an organism plays in a community
- An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
26 Clues: living. • nonliving. • must eat food • eats dead animals • Web what eats what • eats living things • make their own food • eat nonliving things • Consumer 1st consumers • Consumer 2nd consumer • individual living thing. • brakes down organic material • eat both nonliving and living • amount of one species in an ecosystem • deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand • ...
Environmental Systems Vocabulary 2021-09-03
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- Consumer eats plants
- die
- nonliving
- a mixed of different organisms
- Chain in order of who eats what
- a living thing
- hunts for food
- not a lot of
- eats meat and plants
- feed on dead things
- a large number of the same organism
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- eats only plants
- grow or develop well
- makes food
- an environment of living and nonliving things
- Consumer eats primary consumer
- breaks down dead things
- a way as to have an effect on another
- an organisms roll in an ecosystem
- Web is what animals eat in an environment
- living
- eats the producer
- existing in great quantities
- eats only meat
- makes its own food
25 Clues: die • living • nonliving • makes food • not a lot of • a living thing • hunts for food • eats only meat • eats only plants • eats the producer • makes its own food • feed on dead things • grow or develop well • eats meat and plants • Consumer eats plants • breaks down dead things • existing in great quantities • a mixed of different organisms • Consumer eats primary consumer • ...
AP Environmental Science 2021-12-07
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- thorough nourishment of offspring
- ______capacity
- _______ cells
- el _____ southern oscillation
- the shapes an environment can take
- fetal birth
- "originating from human activity"
- dynamic species
- a combination of silt, sand, and clay
- natural drainage system
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- egg-laying mammal
- number of individuals in an area
- body of groundwater
- second highest taxonomic rank
- _______ change
- weathering with movement
- the _________ cycle is the only with no involvement from the atmosphere
- whitening of corals
- the ground in which plants grow
- cover 75% of the earth's surface
- watershed product
- _____ winds
- tropical grassland
23 Clues: fetal birth • _____ winds • _______ cells • ______capacity • _______ change • dynamic species • egg-laying mammal • watershed product • tropical grassland • body of groundwater • whitening of corals • natural drainage system • weathering with movement • second highest taxonomic rank • el _____ southern oscillation • the ground in which plants grow • number of individuals in an area • ...
Environmental Science: Energy 2022-03-25
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- From remains of organisms
- Used in nuclear reactors
- Breaking-up an atoms nucleus
- Controversial form of extraction
- Dead plant material
- Rise in Temperature
- Used when coal deposits are near the surface
- Radio waves
- Electrons flowing to turn on a light
- Motion of a bowling ball
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- Burning a piece of wood
- Cleanest burning fossil fuel
- Opposite of fission
- Fossil fuels
- An atomic bomb
- Refineries work with this
- Most consumed sector of energy
- Why Chernobyl is uninhabitable
- Energy the human body uses
- Solar Power
20 Clues: Radio waves • Solar Power • Fossil fuels • An atomic bomb • Opposite of fission • Dead plant material • Rise in Temperature • Burning a piece of wood • Used in nuclear reactors • Motion of a bowling ball • From remains of organisms • Refineries work with this • Energy the human body uses • Cleanest burning fossil fuel • Breaking-up an atoms nucleus • Most consumed sector of energy • ...
Environmental Super Crossword 2022-05-10
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- a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere.
- Scientific study of the atmosphere and weather processes.
- the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.
- the mechanical or chemical breaking down of rock into smaller sediments.
- Rocks formed by the cooling and solidifying of molten materials
- Liquid precipitation.
- a hole that is dug or drilled to reach groundwater.
- Artificial lake formed by damming a river.
- Fossilized tree sap.
- solid form of water
- Stratigraphy is the study of rock ____.
- Large region classified according to the species that live in that location as well as climate (such as deserts, rainforest, etc.)
- An underground formation that contains groundwater
- Earth's atmosphere has this many layers!
- The densest planet in our solar system!
- Name of the supercontinent from when all the landmasses were joined together
- In Geology the law of Superposition states that the oldest rocks are almost always on the _____ layer.
- preserved remains or traces of organisms that lived in the past(bones, footprints, etc.)
- the transport of weathered materials and sediments by water, wind, ice, or gravity.
- A gap in rock ages typically caused by a period of erosion.
- Layer(s) of gasses surrounding a planet
- Large sheets of slow moving flowing ice.
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- Burning fossil fuels released carbon ______ into the atmosphere.
- Solid inorganic naturally occurring compounds that have distinct organized compositions
- Flakey Ice precipitation
- The study of rocks, Earth, and the underlying processes
- _____ Science is the name of this class!
- average weather in a region over a long period of time (30+ years).
- Melting polar ice will cause ___ levels to raise.
- These near-shore aquatic biomes have some of the worlds most biodiversity
- Liquid believed to be essential for life as we know it.
- ___ factors are all of the non-living elements in a biome/ecosystem.
- The majority of Earth's volcanoes and earthquakes occur along the _____ of Fire.
- Water Cycle process where liquid changes to gas.
- The La Brea ____ Pits in Los Angels produces vast quantities of fossilized remains.
- Long period of glacial expansion covers vast areas of land and global temperatures are cooler.(2 words)
- _____ fossils are fossils that indicate the relative age of a rock.
- Antarctica is surprisingly both a Polar Biome as well as this dry biome we usually think of as being hot.
- The area of land drained by a particular river system
- part of water cycle that flows over land as surface water instead of being absorbed into ground.
- Molten rock material found below Earth's surface.
- Long period of lower than normal rainfall in a region
- Molten rock material above Earth's surface.
- Earth's ____ is made up of heavy metals such as iron and nickel.
- temporary conditions of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
45 Clues: solid form of water • Fossilized tree sap. • Liquid precipitation. • Flakey Ice precipitation • Stratigraphy is the study of rock ____. • The densest planet in our solar system! • Layer(s) of gasses surrounding a planet • _____ Science is the name of this class! • Earth's atmosphere has this many layers! • Large sheets of slow moving flowing ice. • ...
AP Environmental Science 2022-05-19
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- fog or haze combining with pollution
- a barrier constructed to hold back water
- a place in Ukraine known for a nuclear explosion
- the process plants undergo to produce oxygen
- a chemical usually in gas often found in basements
- teacher of APES
- a disease spread throughout the entire world
- the metabolic rate of reactions that occur in an organism's cells
- the cyclical process of water
- the substance used often to create heat or electricity
- a colorless odorless gas that is flammable
- the chemical element with the atomic number of 6
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- a natural fuel like coal or gas
- the variety of life
- the number of protons in a nucleus
- the weather conditions over a long period of time
- the most specific level of classification of an organism
- an excessive richness of nutrients in a body of water
- the act of clearing large amounts of trees
- the state of the atmosphere in a given area for a short period of time ex. sunny
- a type of resource that doesn't deplete when used
- a classification system for organisms
- the most specific level of classification
- harmful substances in the air
- something existing in a finite quantity
- the chemical with the symbol Pb
- cancer causing substance
- the puffy thick type of cloud often seen overlapping
- a small furry character in Dr. Seuss's book
- water
30 Clues: water • teacher of APES • the variety of life • cancer causing substance • harmful substances in the air • the cyclical process of water • a natural fuel like coal or gas • the chemical with the symbol Pb • the number of protons in a nucleus • fog or haze combining with pollution • a classification system for organisms • something existing in a finite quantity • ...
environmental change + management 2022-02-07
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- part of earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere
- the natural home or environment of an animal plant or other organisms
- supports life on earth without requing human action eg. decomposition
- the solid outer layer of the earth that consists of the crust and rigid upper part of the mantle
- action take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact
- all the water on earth
- humans are superior and the most important species on earth
- the surrounding or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives operates
- release of harmful materials into the environment
- the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work
- occurs when natural or human induced processes decrease the future ability of land to support crops, livestock or wild species
- meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
- a term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals
- hazardous waste causing danger from chemicals and infectious organisms
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- Worldview holding that we can manage the
- nature exists for all species on earth, not just humans and humans are qual to other species
- the environments provision of raw materials and natural resources eg. food
- Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all atmosphere
- perspectives or views held by individuals re global environment based on values and assumptions
- the cultural recreational or psychological value of the environment for people
- the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
- the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet
- the ability of natural environments to absorb waster and pollution
- an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)
- for our benefit but that we have an ethical responsibility to be caring and responsible managers, or stewards, of the
25 Clues: all the water on earth • Worldview holding that we can manage the • release of harmful materials into the environment • humans are superior and the most important species on earth • the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet • action take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact • ...
Environmental Science #3 2021-03-30
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- a consumer that eats animals
- monomer of nucleic acids
- a consumer that feeds on the remains of dead animals
- Any natural resource that can replenish itself in a relatively short period of time, usually no longer than the length of a human life.
- has polar covalent bonds; H is partially positive, O is partially negative
- the organism that eats the prey
- the organism that is eaten
- A substance that is dissolved in a solution.
- Growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate
- the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.
- tendency of water to rise in a thin tube
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- Water- due to its polarity and ability to dissolve many different solutes
- Foods that are mostly products or organisms that have their genes altered in a laboratory for specific purposes, such as disease resistance, increased productivity, or nutritional value allowing growers greater control, predictability, and efficiency.
- A resource that takes so long to form that it can't be replaced.
- DNA and RNA; code for genes and proteins
- An organic compound that is made of one or more chains of amino acids and that is a principal component of all cells
- In an experiment, the group that is not exposed to the treatment; contrasts with the experimental group and serves as a comparison for evaluating the effect of the treatment.
- Conversion of light energy from the sun into chemical energy.
- Part of the environment that includes the physical features of the environment that affect the organisms living in a particular area
- What does every food chain or food web begin with?
20 Clues: monomer of nucleic acids • the organism that is eaten • a consumer that eats animals • the organism that eats the prey • DNA and RNA; code for genes and proteins • tendency of water to rise in a thin tube • A substance that is dissolved in a solution. • What does every food chain or food web begin with? • a consumer that feeds on the remains of dead animals • ...
environmental systems A 2021-04-06
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- when these gases react in the atmosphere with water, oxygen, and other chemicals to form various acidic compounds.
- describes a lifestyle that attempts to reduce an individual's or society's use of the Earth's natural resources, and one's personal resources.
- is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention.
- is the geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or landmass.
- a continuous series of natural processes by which nitrogen passes successively from air to soil to organisms and back to air or soil involving principally nitrogen fixation, nitrification, decay, and denitrification.
- relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.
- occurs when there is more water than land can absorb. The excess liquid flows across the surface of the land and into nearby creeks, streams, or ponds.
- is a pesticide used to kill unwanted plants. they kill certain targets while leaving the desired crop relatively unharmed. Some of these act by interfering with the growth of the weed and are often based on plant hormones.
- involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods.
- is any substance that occupies space and has mass.
- prevention of wasteful use of a resource.
- The waste water from domestic, commercial and industrial sources carried by sewers. Waste matter carried away in sewers or drains. Human waste, often toxic to many organisms which can be treated in a variety of ways to eliminate its dangerous components.
- An eating away, destruction of the surface of a tissue, material or structure, Progressive loss of the hard substance of a tooth by chemical processes that do not involve bacterial action.
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- the rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns, often characterized by low-density residential housing, single-use zoning, and increased reliance on the private automobile for transportation.
- They can harm the environment, the economy, or even human health.
- the action or process of adapting or being adapted.
- physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
- biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- is stored in rocks and sediments, while the rest is stored in the ocean, atmosphere, and living organisms.
- caused by plants and animals. Plants and animals release acid forming chemicals that cause weathering and also contribute to the breaking down of rocks and landforms.
- the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
- processes occurs when any process is modulated in its frequency, rate or extent. Biological processes are regulated by many means; examples include the control of gene expression, protein modification or interaction with a protein or substrate molecule.
- is all of the food chains in an ecosystem. Each organism in an ecosystem occupies a specific trophic level or position in the food chain or web.
- A chemical used to kill insects. Substances that are capable of killing insects, used by humans to those who are considered pests.
- is a collection of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in. They can be found over a range of continents.
- the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
- The change in the environment caused by natural or artificial input of harmful contaminants into the environment, and may cause instability, disruption or harmful effects to the ecosystem
27 Clues: prevention of wasteful use of a resource. • is any substance that occupies space and has mass. • the action or process of adapting or being adapted. • They can harm the environment, the economy, or even human health. • physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms. • the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem. • ...
Environmental Systems B 2021-04-26
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- a region with particular prevailing weather conditions.
- the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet.
- fog or haze combined with smoke and other atmospheric pollutants.
- takes place when a population's per capita growth rate decreases as population size approaches a maximum imposed by limited resources, the carrying capacity
- the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
- has the opposite effect of El Nino. During La Nina events, trade winds are even stronger than usual, pushing more warm water toward Asia.
- is a colorless, odorless reactive gas comprised of three oxygen atoms. It is found naturally in the earth's stratosphere, where it absorbs the ultraviolet component of incoming solar radiation that could be harmful to life on earth.
- : the factor that limits the reaction rate in any physiological process governed by many variables
- newly exposed or newly formed rock is colonized by living things for the first time.
- refers to a population that is unchanging – it is neither growing, nor declining; the growth rate is zero
- whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size.
- the action of clearing a wide area of trees.
- s a natural resource that cannot be readily replaced by natural means at a quick enough pace to keep up with consumption
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- an area that was previously occupied by living things is disturbed, then re-colonized following the disturbance.
- the number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container
- has an endless supply such as solar energy, wind energy, and geothermal pressure, Most precious metals are renewable also.
- is an unexpected event, caused by nature, such as an earthquake or flood, in which there is a lot of suffering, damage, or death
- the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
- the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms.
- all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.
- the process of making an area more urban.
- is the number of people per unit of area, usually quoted per square kilometre or square mile, and which may include or exclude for example areas of water or glaciers.
- an irregularly occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region and beyond every few years, characterized by the appearance of unusually warm, nutrient-poor water off northern Peru and Ecuador, typically in late December.
- a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants.
- a layer in the earth's stratosphere at an altitude of about 6.2 miles (10 km) containing a high concentration of ozone, which absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth from the sun.
- any of the almost spherical concentric regions of matter that make up the earth and its atmosphere, as the lithosphere and hydrosphere.
26 Clues: the process of making an area more urban. • the action of clearing a wide area of trees. • a region with particular prevailing weather conditions. • all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country. • the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. • the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet. • ...
Environmental science review 2023-12-05
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- after this, the population of the country rapidly increased
- multiple populations living in the same ecosystem
- where freshwater and saltwater meet
- how much organic matter there is
- the study of human populations
- these kinds of organisms can make their own food
- a pathogen often spread through water supplies
- these kinds of organisms cannot make their own food
- the over prescription of antibiotics has helped result in Methicillin ______________ Staphylococcus Aureus
- these factors in an ecosystem would NOT be things like plants or animals or fungus
- the study of living things and their nonliving environment
- how many different living organsisms there are
- some bacteria and certain kind of plankton can do this
- a compound composed of 3 oxygen atoms
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- how a population tends to be organized in an area
- distance from the north pole or south pole
- a cold biome with evergreen trees
- this is all of the water on earth
- liquid stone
- this doesn't happen at the bottom of the ocean
- This part of the earth consists of the crust and mantle
- a ___________ species is crucial to an ecosystem
- the act of magma cycling upwards in the mantle and then back down as it cools
- a beneficial trait for a species
- these can slip, causing seismic events like earthquakes
- this type of relationship is where one organism is unaffected and the other is helped
- Orcas whales and leopard seals would be an example of __________________ relationship
- nitrogen and phosphorous are key components of this
- a resource that can be replenished faster than it is used up
- air is _________ closer to the surface of the earth
30 Clues: liquid stone • the study of human populations • how much organic matter there is • a beneficial trait for a species • a cold biome with evergreen trees • this is all of the water on earth • where freshwater and saltwater meet • a compound composed of 3 oxygen atoms • distance from the north pole or south pole • this doesn't happen at the bottom of the ocean • ...
Environmental science crossword 2023-09-29
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- The ground layer with all the dead organic matter and the small plants and animals
- Tropical biome dominated by grasses, shrubs, and small trees; plants have to survive a long time without water
- Northern arctic regions; winter is cold and dry which does not allow trees to grow; permafrost in the soil all year; thin topsoil melts in summer and makes a spongey landscape with bogs
- The gradual process of change and replacement of some or all of the species in a community
- A defining feature of the tundra biome
- Covers large areas of interiors of continents; mountains and fire are important for maintenance; grasses dry out in the summer so lightning strikes often start fires
- Occurs on a surface where an ecosystem has existed before
- The layer with all the short plants adapted to shade
- The primary layer where trees form a dense layer that absorb 95% of incoming sunlight
- The top layer of a rainforest where the tallest trees emerge into the direct sunlight
- Temperate shrubland; mediterranean climate; found in all 5 parts of the world
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- Most diverse boime; located in a belt around the equator; 200-450cm of rain/yr; strong sunlight and constant temps year-round
- When humans disturb the land and the land reverts back into a forest after humans leave
- Between 30-50 degrees lat; has trees that drop their leaves; growing season of 4-6 months; little water available for plants
- Occurs on a surface where no ecosystem existed before
- A northern coniferous forest across the northern hemisphere just under the arctic circle; average temps below freezing with little precipitation; near constant daylight in summer; 6-10 month long winters
- Forests with a moderate temperature; only one in North America
- Grasslands in North America
- Large regions characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plants and animal communities
- Widely scattered with little or no vegetation; temps change rapidly over 24 hours; temps could go from 104 to freezing from day to night
20 Clues: Grasslands in North America • A defining feature of the tundra biome • The layer with all the short plants adapted to shade • Occurs on a surface where no ecosystem existed before • Occurs on a surface where an ecosystem has existed before • Forests with a moderate temperature; only one in North America • ...
Environmental Chemistry Review 2023-11-01
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- _____________ nutrients are carbon-based compounds such as carbohydrates, proteins, lipids and vitamins
- Minerals that we need 100mg/day of or more
- The increase in concentration as toxins move up in the food chain
- ________________ nutrients are also known as minerals
- A substance that causes no change to litmus paper
- Molecules that help regulate the chemical reactions in living organisms
- Have a pH between 0 and 6.9
- The use of living organisms to control or remove the presence of pollutants from the environment
- An insecticide originally used in WWII for malaria control
- The first element listed in the numbers on a bag of fertilizer
- The element in a fertilizer that protects against disease
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- Provide energy for metabolism
- mg/kg
- Organisms whose presence or absence gives clues as to the amount of pollution affecting an ecosystem
- Acid Precipitation occurs when ____________ and nitrates combine with moisture in the air to produce rain or snow with lower than normal pH
- Waste that breaks down slowly or not at all
- Storage for unused energy
- A pesticide that targets weeds
- When we combine an acid and a base in order to create water and salt
- ____________ toxicity occurs when symptoms develop after just one exposure
- Structural molecules for the body
- Compounds or elements that are essential for production of the organic matter that makes up living organisms
- Essential components of enzymes and vitamins
- The dose of a substance needed to kill 50 percent of the population it is applied to
- Form OH- ions in a solution
- An element that is part of the thyroid hormone
26 Clues: mg/kg • Storage for unused energy • Have a pH between 0 and 6.9 • Form OH- ions in a solution • Provide energy for metabolism • A pesticide that targets weeds • Structural molecules for the body • Minerals that we need 100mg/day of or more • Waste that breaks down slowly or not at all • Essential components of enzymes and vitamins • ...
Environmental Systems Vocab 2019-09-13
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- scientific classification of organisms into specially named groups based on either shared characteristics or on evolutionary relationships
- process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural agents
- accumulation or laying down of matter by a natural process
- all of earth's water in all forms
- chemical used to kill harmful animals or plants
- living organisms in an environment
- complex system of interrelated food chains in an environment
- the general or average weather conditions of a certain region, including temperature, rainfall and wind
- the protection, preservation, management or restoration of natural environments and the ecological communities that inhabit them
- a tool that allows the user to determine the identity of items in the natural world
- change in structure, function or behavior by which a species or individual improves its chances of survival in a specific environment
- community of organisms together with their physical environment
- rainfall made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution that causes the environment harm, typically to forests and lakes
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- presence or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects
- continuous ridge of high ground forming a divide between 2 different drainage basins or river systems
- non-living organisms in an environment
- large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region
- the transformation of land once suitable for agriculture into desert
- substance that is toxic to plants, used to destroy unwanted vegetation
- the number, variety and genetic variation of different organisms found within a specified geographic region
- substance used to kill insects
- a natural or artificial pond or lake used for the storage of water
- waste water and excrement conveyed in sewers
- wear away or change the appearance or texture of (something) by long exposure to air
- something that has mass
25 Clues: something that has mass • substance used to kill insects • all of earth's water in all forms • living organisms in an environment • non-living organisms in an environment • waste water and excrement conveyed in sewers • chemical used to kill harmful animals or plants • accumulation or laying down of matter by a natural process • ...
Environmental Science Crossword 2019-05-20
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- Fresh water, held mostly in aquifers
- "Selling all this toxic junk as quickly as possible"
- Bacteria and fungi which break down dead plants and animals
- The stock of natural resources that combine to provide benefits to humans
- A human centered worldview
- Those who obtain food and energy by eating others
- A worldview that considers all living entities
- Those who create their own food
- A worldview that considers all ecosystems
- The diversity in an environment as indicated by numbers of different species of plants and animals
- A worldview that asserts humans have the right to exploit the world as they wish
- A method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged
- A place where one or more organisms live
- ________ resources can regenerate after harvesting
- Your impact is your _____________
- The 'job' of an organism in a community
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- Getting rid of the junk- the last step in the 'materials economy'
- A deadly bacteria which caused the Walkerton tragedy
- Someone involved or affected by a course of action
- When organisms further up the food chain have higher concentrations of pollutants in their tissues
- Environmental ___________ is when an ecosystem is distressed and must undergo recovery
- Our way of life revolves around _____________
- A generic term used to describe one or more communities of organism interacting with the environment
- The development and productivity of organisms and ecosystems are naturally constrained by environmental ___________
- Once resources are gathered they are mixed with toxic chemicals in a process called __________________
- A fancy word for 'trashing the planet'
26 Clues: A human centered worldview • Those who create their own food • Your impact is your _____________ • Fresh water, held mostly in aquifers • A fancy word for 'trashing the planet' • The 'job' of an organism in a community • A place where one or more organisms live • A worldview that considers all ecosystems • Our way of life revolves around _____________ • ...
Environmental Crossword Puzzle 2019-10-21
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- / Broad categories of terrestrial ecosystems.
- / An animal that only feeds on flesh.
- Rain Forest / A forest with high rate of precipitation and high humidity, usually located near the equator.
- / Disruptive events that affect the composition of ecosystems.
- / Of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants.
- / diversity among and within plant and animal species in an environment.
- / Consisting of, relating to, or being in water.
- cycle / The flow of chemical elements and compounds between living organisms and the physical environment.
- Forest / Forests where a majority of the trees lose their foliage at the end of the typical growing season.
- / Arid land with usually sparse vegetation.
- Grassland / Areas of open grassy plains that are sparsely populated with trees.
- / consists of a community of organisms together with their physical environment.
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- / A type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons.
- / A flat grassland of tropical or subtropical regions.
- Web / A series of organisms related by predator-prey and consumer-resource interactions.
- / An animal that only feeds on plants.
- / Of or having to do with life or living organisms.
- / Consists of all the populations of all the species that live together in a particular area.
- / A photosynthetic, eukaryotic, and multicellular organism of the kingdom Plantae.
- / Careful preservation and protection of something.
- / A nonliving physical or chemical attribute in an ecosystem.
- / The ability of an ecosystem to remain at equilibrium in spite of disturbances.
- / Characteristics or behaviors that give an organism an edge in the struggle for survival.
- / The steady state of an ecosystem.
- / Of or relating to the sea.
- / How readily an ecosystem returns to equilibrium after being disturbed.
- / To put or pass through a cycle again.
- / An organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms.
- Forest / Vegetation composed primarily of cone-bearing needle-leaved or scale-leaved evergreen trees.
29 Clues: / Of or relating to the sea. • / The steady state of an ecosystem. • / An animal that only feeds on flesh. • / An animal that only feeds on plants. • / To put or pass through a cycle again. • / Arid land with usually sparse vegetation. • / Broad categories of terrestrial ecosystems. • / Consisting of, relating to, or being in water. • ...
Earth's Environmental Systems 2020-10-08
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- Organisms like bacteria and fungi that break down waste and dead organisms.
- Fertilizer runoff can cause large algae growth in waterways
- This can filter through the spheres by lightning, bacteria, or human intervention.
- Layers of rock and soil that hold groundwater.
- The process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas or vapor
- The loss of water from a plant in the form of water vapor.
- Producer pull carbon dioxide from air and converts it to oxygen.
- Organisms that eat other organisms to obtain nutrients.
- These type of boundaries are when plates collide.
- this sphere consist of all the water on earth.
- This sphere runs from crust to core.
- These type of plate boundaries are when plates slide past one another.
- This sphere consist of all living things
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- This type of feedback loop is where the input and output cancel out or stabilize each other.
- Water that is falling out of the sky, this could be rain, drizzle, snow, sleet, hail
- A network of relationships among parts that exchange energy and matter.
- Farmers often rotate their crops with this in order to "fix" nitrogen in the soil.
- These type of boundaries are when plates separate.
- This sphere is the layer of gases around the planet
- This type of feedback loop drive outcomes towards extreme.
- These are matter that organimsl require for their life processes.
- The layer of the geosphere that is very hot and solid rock.
- The environment gets most of its energy from where?
- This is released naturally only when rocks are worn down by water or wind.
- Organisms that produce their own food.
- This sphere runs from crust to upper mantle.
- The process where water vapor becomes liquid. It is the reverse of evaporation
- This respiration is the chemical reverse of photosynthesis.
- The layer of the geosphere that has cool rock and makes up earth's surface.
- Ice-covered parts of Earth
30 Clues: Ice-covered parts of Earth • This sphere runs from crust to core. • Organisms that produce their own food. • This sphere consist of all living things • This sphere runs from crust to upper mantle. • Layers of rock and soil that hold groundwater. • this sphere consist of all the water on earth. • These type of boundaries are when plates collide. • ...
Environmental systems B 2020-05-15
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- the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms.
- growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size.
- Population density is a measurement of population per unit area, or exceptionally unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.
- the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet.
- growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size.
- the number of live births per thousand of population per year.
- (of a substance or object) capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other living organisms.
- fog or haze combined with smoke and other atmospheric pollutants.
- El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific, including the area off the Pacific coast of South America.
- the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
- the maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to only what is needed to replace the existing population.
- any of the almost spherical concentric regions of matter that make up the earth and its atmosphere, as the lithosphere and hydrosphere.
- the number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container.
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- the factor that limits the reaction rate in any physiological process governed by many variables.
- La Niña is a coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that is the colder counterpart of El Niño, as part of the broader El Niño–Southern Oscillation climate pattern.
- a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants.
- the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.
- In logistic growth, a population's per capital growth rate gets smaller and ... this means that at their maximum growth rate, their population doubles each hour.
- the process of making an area more urban.
- A renewable resource is one that can be used repeatedly and does not run out because it is naturally replaced.
- a layer in the earth's stratosphere at an altitude of about 6.2 miles (10 km) containing a high concentration of ozone, which absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth from the sun.
- the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
- A nonrenewable resource is a natural substance that is not replenished with the speed at which it is consumed.
- the ratio of deaths to the population of a particular area or during a particular period of time, usually calculated as the number of deaths per one thousand people per year.
- a colorless unstable toxic gas with a pungent odor and powerful oxidizing properties, formed from oxygen by electrical discharges or ultraviolet light. It differs from normal oxygen (O2) in having three atoms in its molecule (O3).
25 Clues: the process of making an area more urban. • the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet. • the number of live births per thousand of population per year. • fog or haze combined with smoke and other atmospheric pollutants. • the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period. • ...
Environmental Systems Crossword 2020-11-05
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- ability to exist constantly
- model of food chains linked together
- condition of mother nature
- related to,or caused by living organisms
- a large body of water created
- community of living organisms
- drains water in a specific waterbody
- all water on earth
- to control or direct by a rule
- scientifically classifying of something
- everything around you
- a substance harmful to plants
- to keep alive or existence
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- two or more are depending on eachother
- a large community of common species
- refers to the variety of life on Earth
- chemical compounds to kill insects
- waste water produced by a community
- displacement of the upper layer of soil
- harmful long term exposure to air
- water going down land surface
- breaking down minerals on earth
- has elevated levels of hydrogen ions
- movement of preventing extinction
- chemical compounds to kill pests
25 Clues: all water on earth • everything around you • condition of mother nature • to keep alive or existence • ability to exist constantly • a large body of water created • community of living organisms • water going down land surface • a substance harmful to plants • to control or direct by a rule • breaking down minerals on earth • chemical compounds to kill pests • ...
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES 2024-05-14
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- gasolina
- tala de árboles
- ecosistema
- gas de efecto invernadero
- reducir, decrecer
- combustible fósil
- deforestación
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- calentamiento global
- cultivo (empieza por "c")
- huracán
- bosque tropical
- petróleo
- aumentar, incrementar
- amenazar
- inundación
- superficie
- cultivar, crecer
- sequía
- suelo (sustrato)
- ganadería y agricultura (empieza por "f")
20 Clues: sequía • huracán • gasolina • petróleo • amenazar • ecosistema • inundación • superficie • deforestación • bosque tropical • tala de árboles • cultivar, crecer • suelo (sustrato) • reducir, decrecer • combustible fósil • calentamiento global • aumentar, incrementar • cultivo (empieza por "c") • gas de efecto invernadero • ganadería y agricultura (empieza por "f")
Environmental Science Crossword 2024-05-16
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- A graph showing the likelihood of survival within a group or population by age
- A group of individuals that interbreed and have fertile offspring
- A characteristic of the environment that restricts population growth
- The pattern of population growth where population increases by a fixed percentage each year
- The number of individual organisms present in a population at a given time
- The members of a species in an area
- All of the population in a particular area
- Nonliving parts of an ecosystem
- The pattern of population growth in which exponential growth is slowed and finally stopped by limiting factors
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- The seasonal movement by people into and out of a given area
- The living parts of an ecosystem
- The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms
- The number of individuals in a population per unit area
- The largest population a given environment can support
- The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism
- The movement of individuals away from a given area
- The proportion of males to females in a population
- A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- The movement of individuals into a given area
- The relative number of organisms of each age within a population
20 Clues: Nonliving parts of an ecosystem • The living parts of an ecosystem • The members of a species in an area • All of the population in a particular area • The movement of individuals into a given area • The movement of individuals away from a given area • The proportion of males to females in a population • The largest population a given environment can support • ...
Earth/Environmental science 2024-03-05
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- an idealized cycle of processes undergone by rocks in the earth's crust, involving igneous intrusion, uplift, erosion, transportation, deposition as sedimentary rock, metamorphism, remelting, and further igneous intrusio
- above-average sea-surface temperatures that periodically develop across the east-central equatorial Pacific
- a tide just after a new or full moon, when there is the greatest difference between high and low water
- the above-average sea-surface temperatures that periodically develop across the east-central equatorial Pacific
- the temperature at which water vapor can condense
- eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon
- happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, but when it is at or near its farthest point from Earth
- affects the process through which heat is trapped near Earth's surface by substances known as 'greenhouse gases.
- measures the distance north or south of the equator
- air pollution that reduces visibility
- the gravity of the sun
- any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the earth
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- when heat moves from one object to another object through direct touch
- waves that are created as a result of vibrations between an electric field and a magnetic field
- the cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration
- an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified.
- the region of the earth's atmosphere above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere, between about 30 and 50 miles (50 and 80 km) in altitude
- a high wispy white cloud usually of minute ice crystals formed at altitudes between about 20,000 and 40,000 feet (6,000 and 12,000 meters)
- a line or column of light,heat,or electromagnetic radiation
- displays yearly temperature and precipitation statistics for a particular location
- a wall or embankment erected to prevent the sea from encroaching on or eroding an area of land
- relating to or involving volcanic processes
- denoting or relating to rock that has undergone transformation by heat, pressure, or other natural agencies, e.g. in the folding of strata or the nearby intrusion of igneous rocks
- that has formed from sediment deposited by water or air
- a breeze blowing toward the sea from the land, especially at night, owing to the relative warmth of the sea
- situated at or near, coming from, or relating to either of the earth's poles or the area inside the Arctic or Antarctic Circles
26 Clues: the gravity of the sun • air pollution that reduces visibility • relating to or involving volcanic processes • eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon • the temperature at which water vapor can condense • measures the distance north or south of the equator • that has formed from sediment deposited by water or air • ...
Environmental Science Crossword 2024-05-30
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- - scientist who coined the term keystone that was based of his study of rocky shore communities (2 words)
- - Administers 261 million surface acres of public lands in american, mainly in western states
- - Fruit with a hard exterior
- Park Service - Service that manages all of the national parks
- - Wolves that were reintroduced to yellowstone changed the behavior of these animals letting plants regenerate.
- - The Science of identifying and classifying organisms
- - have two small springs and are the fastest type of foothold trap
- - Species that are undomesticated and free roaming
- - strips of unbroken habitat that connect uncut areas
- - Bait consists of a mixture of a substance to attract the insects and an insecticide to kill them.
- - Nickname for theodore Roosevelet
- - South Carolina’s state beverage
- - This organism can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day and reduce the erosion of banks.
- - Watershed thats name is the abbreviation of rivers, Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto
- - Created by an act of Congress in 1879
- - Horseshoe crab blood isn’t iron based like mammals but _______ based
- - Ecological process where energy moves from the top to the bottom of the food chain.
- - Fruit with a flesh like exterior (2 words)
- - designed to kill the target animal quickly
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- - South Carolina’s state bird (2 words)
- - Disturbance that leaves no soil
- - a single spring trap with a typical jaw spread of around 4 3/4″
- - has the trigger placed on the soil surface over a slightly depressed mole run
- - Formed in 1970 when some of the oldest agencies in the Federal Government came together
- - Elliptical shaped bodies of water found in the coastal plain (2 words)
- Service - Established in 1905 to manage public lands in national forests and grasslands
- - he gradual and predictable replacement of one community by another
- Pinchot - he first Chief of the Forest Service
- - Animal often mistaken to be a crab but is actually more closely related to arachnids like spiders and scorpions. (2 words)
- - South Carolina’s state tree
- - a monitoring tool and a removal tool
- - Animals found outside natural range (2 words)
- - Group of very similar organisms related by a common descendant
- - Species that multiplied on large scale after the removal of a sea star species
- - designed to catch moles as they run along an active tunnel
- - Species whose impact on its community or ecosystem is larger and greater than would be expected from its relative abundance.
- - State organization that monitors natural resources
- - Geographic region of South Carolina that harbor the appalachian mountains (2 words)
- - typically made of nylon or polyester mesh suspended between two poles, resembling a volleyball net.
- - provides wildlife with temporary refuge from weather, a place to forage, rest, bed down, nest, breed, and rear young.
40 Clues: - Fruit with a hard exterior • - South Carolina’s state tree • - Disturbance that leaves no soil • - South Carolina’s state beverage • - Nickname for theodore Roosevelet • - a monitoring tool and a removal tool • - South Carolina’s state bird (2 words) • - Created by an act of Congress in 1879 • - Fruit with a flesh like exterior (2 words) • ...
Crossword Environmental Science 2023-08-28
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- mining technique that creates a large visible pit or hole in the ground
- average concentration of an element in Earth's crust
- mining technique in which the entire top of a mountain is removed w/ explosive
- Mining techniques used when the desired resource in more than 100m below the surface of the earth
- horizontal layer in a soil defined by distinctive physical features such as texture and color
- least weathered soil horizon, which always occurs beneath the B horizon and is similar to the parent material
- underlying rock material from which the inorganic components of a soil are derived
- soil horizon composed primarily of mineral material w/ little organic matter
- unwanted waste material created during mining including mineral and other residues that are left behind after the desired metal or ore is removed
- mechanical breakdown of rocks and minerals
- loss of some or all of a soil's ability to support plant growth
- in resource management, the known quantity of a resource that can be economically recovered
- removal of strips of soil and rock to expose ore
- zone of leaching of eluviation,found in some acidic soils under the O horizon or less often, the A horizon
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- process of looking for minerals, metals, and precious stones in river sediments
- most fully decomposed organic matter in the lowest solution of the O horizon
- precipitation high in sulfuric acid and nitric acid from reactions between water vapor and sulfur and nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere
- ability of a particular soil to absorb and release cations
- organic horizon at the surface of many soils, composed of organic detritus in various stages of decomposition
- breakdown of rocks and minerals by chemical reactions, the dissolving of chemical elements from rocks, or both
- element w/ properties that allow it to conduct electricity and heat energy, and to perform other important functions
- frequently the top layer of soil, a zone of organic material and minerals that have been mixed together(top soil)
- physical removal of rock fragments from a landscape or ecosystem
- proportion of soil bases to soil acid, expressed as a percentage
- concentrated accumulation of minerals from which economically valuable materials can be extracted
25 Clues: mechanical breakdown of rocks and minerals • removal of strips of soil and rock to expose ore • average concentration of an element in Earth's crust • ability of a particular soil to absorb and release cations • loss of some or all of a soil's ability to support plant growth • physical removal of rock fragments from a landscape or ecosystem • ...
34.Environmental Elements 2023-08-12
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- Rotating funnel cloud.
- Our planet's surface.
- Space rock impact.
- Essential liquid for life.
- Interacting organisms and environment.
- Large landmass.
- Earth's structure study.
- Plant life.
- Cold, treeless region.
- Coastal water surge.
- Powerful tropical storm.
- Vast saltwater body.
- Intense tropical storm.
- Spouting hot water.
- Essential gas for breathing.
- Attraction of materials.
- Water vapor close to the ground.
- Earthquake study.
- Heat from Earth's interior.
- Equal day and night.
- Animal life.
- Frozen precipitation.
- Earth's widest latitude circle.
- Ecosystem type.
- Rhythmic sea level changes.
- Erupting mountain.
- Liquid to vapor conversion.
- Solid mineral matter.
- Greenhouse gas.
- Volcanic activity.
- Protecting natural resources.
- Ground shaking event.
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- Breathable atmospheric gases.
- Envelope of gases around Earth.
- Heat and light source.
- Rotating storm system.
- Slow-moving ice mass.
- Earthquake strength.
- Moving air currents.
- Solid formation from a solution.
- Preserved ancient remains.
- Wearing away of land.
- Natural source of illumination.
- Electrical discharge in the sky.
- Deposited sediment.
- Elevated flat area.
- Upper atmosphere gas layer.
- Study of interactions between organisms and environment.
- Molten rock beneath Earth's surface.
- Structured mineral formation.
- Colorful northern lights.
- Turning into stone.
- Air pollution haze.
- Seasonal animal movement.
- Ground for planting.
- Arid, dry region.
- Variety of life forms.
- Earth's crust movement.
- Celestial alignment.
- Blowing sand cloud.
- Rapid snow descent.
- Longest and shortest days.
- Precipitation from clouds.
- Long-term weather patterns.
- CYCLE Circulation of water.
65 Clues: Plant life. • Animal life. • Large landmass. • Ecosystem type. • Greenhouse gas. • Arid, dry region. • Earthquake study. • Space rock impact. • Erupting mountain. • Volcanic activity. • Deposited sediment. • Elevated flat area. • Turning into stone. • Spouting hot water. • Air pollution haze. • Blowing sand cloud. • Rapid snow descent. • Earthquake strength. • Moving air currents. • Coastal water surge. • ...
Environmental Science Vocabulary 2023-05-10
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- A combination of gasses that are responsible for increasing the global temperatures
- The result of fertilizes and pesticides entering bodies of water
- The result of atmospheric gasses trapping the sun's heat
- A relationship in which one organism benefits, while the other is unaffected
- Fungi such as mushrooms and yeast
- An organism that only consumes meat
- A relationship in which two organisms benefit each other
- Refers to livng organisms
- The process of removing trees
- A disease-causing organism
- A nonrenewable resource composed of decomposing plants and animals
- An unnatural method of selecting genes
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- Natural resources that can always be replenished
- Organism that consumes both meat and plants
- The ability to preserve resources
- The maximum amount of organisms and environment can support before collapsing
- An organism whose DNA has been altered
- An organism that consumes only plants
- An area that contains a variety of life forms all interacting with each other
- Refers to aspects of nature that are not living, such as rocks, temperature, and water
- Another word to describe plants and autotrophs
- A relationship in which one organism benefits while the other is harmed
- Resources that will eventually be depleted, such as coal, minerals & metals
- A set of principles that govern behavior and decision making
- A nonnative organism that threatens a habitat by taking resources from native organisms
- A greenhouse gas that is contributing to global warming
- A variety or different life forms
27 Clues: Refers to livng organisms • A disease-causing organism • The process of removing trees • The ability to preserve resources • Fungi such as mushrooms and yeast • A variety or different life forms • An organism that only consumes meat • An organism that consumes only plants • An organism whose DNA has been altered • An unnatural method of selecting genes • ...
Vocabulary - Environmental project 2024-10-16
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- The large-scale removal of forests, which affects biodiversity and increases CO₂ emissions.
- Energy obtained from the sun through solar panels.
- The capacity of ecological and social systems to recover from the impacts of climate change.
- Funds allocated to projects addressing climate change, such as emission reduction and adaptation.
- Actions taken to reduce or prevent the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG).
- The efficient use of energy to reduce consumption without affecting quality of life.
- Development that meets present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
- An international agreement adopted in 2015 during COP 21 that seeks to limit global warming to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
- The process of shifting from traditional fossil fuel energy sources to more sustainable and renewable sources.
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- The global increase in sea level caused mainly by the melting of glaciers and warming of oceans.
- Climate change caused by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation.
- The process of reducing the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere, particularly by transitioning to clean energy sources.
- The wearing away of the Earth’s surface by water, wind, or human activities like deforestation.
- The total amount of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, emitted by human activities like burning fossil fuels.
- (GHG) Gases in the atmosphere that trap heat, such as carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane (CH₄).
- The decrease in the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.
- Significant and lasting variation in Earth’s climate patterns, caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels.
- The variety of species of plants, animals, and microorganisms in an ecosystem.
- Energy that comes from natural sources that regenerate, such as the sun, wind, and water.
- Measures taken to adjust to the effects of climate change and reduce potential damages.
20 Clues: Energy obtained from the sun through solar panels. • Actions taken to reduce or prevent the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG). • The decrease in the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. • The variety of species of plants, animals, and microorganisms in an ecosystem. • ...
Environmental Awareness Crossword 2025-08-25
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- Harmful to health or nature
- Powers electric vehicles
- Natural and chemical-free
- Symbolic color of eco-efforts
- Safe for the environment
- Dirty air, water, or land
- Energy from sunlight
- Common pollutant in oceans
- Eco-friendly over time
- Gases released by engines
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- Element tied to pollution
- Organic waste turned to soil
- Energy that doesn’t run out
- Home for wildlife
- Process materials for reuse
- Activity to remove trash
- Save energy or resources
- Powers the plant and machines
- Unused or leftover material
- Renewable energy from air
20 Clues: Home for wildlife • Energy from sunlight • Eco-friendly over time • Powers electric vehicles • Activity to remove trash • Save energy or resources • Safe for the environment • Element tied to pollution • Natural and chemical-free • Dirty air, water, or land • Renewable energy from air • Gases released by engines • Common pollutant in oceans • Harmful to health or nature • ...
Environmental issues crossword 2025-09-17
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- Long-term weather pattern.
- Renewable energy generated by turbines.
- Interconnected system of life and environment.
- Large-scale removal of forests.
- Grown without synthetic chemicals.
- Unwanted or unusable materials.
- Element linked to emissions.
- Organic waste turned into fertilizer.
- Clean energy from the sun.
- To keep something going without harming it.
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- Variety of life on Earth.
- Gases released into the atmosphere.
- Type of gas causing warming.
- Reusing materials to reduce waste.
- Rapid growth of algae that harms water quality.
- Synthetic material harming oceans.
- Contamination of air, water, or soil.
- Layer protecting Earth from UV rays.
- Polluted precipitation harming ecosystems.
- Fuel Nonrenewable energy source like coal or oil.
20 Clues: Variety of life on Earth. • Long-term weather pattern. • Clean energy from the sun. • Type of gas causing warming. • Element linked to emissions. • Large-scale removal of forests. • Unwanted or unusable materials. • Reusing materials to reduce waste. • Synthetic material harming oceans. • Grown without synthetic chemicals. • Gases released into the atmosphere. • ...
Environmental issues crossword 2025-09-17
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- Type of gas causing warming.
- Synthetic material harming oceans.
- Polluted precipitation harming ecosystems.
- Large-scale removal of forests.
- Contamination of air, water, or soil.
- Variety of life on Earth.
- Element linked to emissions.
- Layer protecting Earth from UV rays.
- To keep something going without harming it.
- Rapid growth of algae that harms water quality.
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- Unwanted or unusable materials.
- Interconnected system of life and environment.
- Reusing materials to reduce waste.
- Long-term weather pattern.
- Grown without synthetic chemicals.
- Renewable energy generated by turbines.
- Gases released into the atmosphere.
- Fuel Nonrenewable energy source like coal or oil.
- Clean energy from the sun.
- Organic waste turned into fertilizer.
20 Clues: Variety of life on Earth. • Long-term weather pattern. • Clean energy from the sun. • Type of gas causing warming. • Element linked to emissions. • Unwanted or unusable materials. • Large-scale removal of forests. • Reusing materials to reduce waste. • Synthetic material harming oceans. • Grown without synthetic chemicals. • Gases released into the atmosphere. • ...
Environmental Health Crossword 2025-09-24
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- An organism, frequently an arthropod such as a mosquito or tick, which transmits a pathogen from one host to another.
- a bacterial infection spread by the bite of an infected blacklegged tick
- Two or more linked cases of the same illness or situation
- Condition resulting from a blend of "Smoke" and "Fog"
- caused by a parasite and is spread by the bite of an infected mosquito
- A highly reactive gas composed of three oxygen atoms that occurs both naturally and through anthropogenic processes
- a disease that is transmitted from an animal or nonhuman species to humans.
- The characterization of the potential adverse effects of human exposures to hazards.
- an inflammation of the brain caused by a viral or bacterial infection
- tiny scales from hair, feathers, or skin, that may cause allergies
- When sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides react with water in the atmosphere with water.
- to kill germs to prevent infections.
- a plant-like organisms that do not have chlorophyll
- the proportion of a population or rate of persons who develop a condition during a specific time period
- Microorganism capable of causing disease
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- incomplete combustion of carbon-containing fuels such as natural gas, gasoline, or wood, and is emitted by a wide variety of combustion sources
- the interaction between a person and an environmental hazard, determining the extent of contact with the hazard
- relationship between the amount of exposure and the observed effect
- single-cell parasite that infects the intestines of people and animals
- Where an infectious agent lives, grows,multipliestiply
- the state of having a disease that is constantly present in a certain geographic area or in a certain group of people
- the presence of harmful substances in the air
- The capacity of a substance to harm living organisms
- The transmission of radiant energy in the forms of electromagnetic waves, streams of particles, sound or heat.
- A substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals.
25 Clues: to kill germs to prevent infections. • Microorganism capable of causing disease • the presence of harmful substances in the air • a plant-like organisms that do not have chlorophyll • The capacity of a substance to harm living organisms • Condition resulting from a blend of "Smoke" and "Fog" • Where an infectious agent lives, grows,multipliestiply • ...
Environmental Sustainability Crossword 2025-10-17
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- The responsible management and protection of natural resources and biodiversity to prevent depletion and ensure sustainability.
- A species that is at risk of extinction due to habitat loss, environmental changes, or other factors.
- The natural environment in which a particular species or community of organisms lives.
- The process of converting waste materials into reusable materials, thereby reducing the consumption of new raw materials.
- Impact The effect of human activities on the natural environment, including pollution, habitat destruction, and biodiversity loss.
- The ability to maintain an ecological balance and conserve natural resources to support the wellbeing of future generations.
- An international organization established on October 24, 1945, following World War II. It was created to promote peace, security, and cooperation among countries worldwide. Often referred to as the UN.
- Energy from sources that are naturally replenished, such as solar, wind, hydroelectric, and biomass.
- Non-native species that spread widely and cause harm to native ecosystems, economy, or human health.
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- The process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide to reduce the impact of climate change.
- The variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem, including the number of different species and genetic diversity.
- Natural fuels formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals, including coal, oil, and natural gas, which contribute to greenhouse gas emissions.
- Sequestration The process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide to reduce the impact of climate change.
- Gases in the Earth's atmosphere that trap heat, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, contributing to global warming.
- Seventeen development goals created by the United Nations for countries to aim for to improve national and global environmental sustainability.
- Renewable energy derived from the heat stored beneath the Earth’s surface, used for heating and electricity generation.
- The introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment, which can affect air, water, and soil quality.
- Materials or substances occurring in nature that can be exploited for economic gain, such as water, minerals, and forests.
- A long-term change in the average weather patterns of Earth, primarily driven by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels.
- A community of living organisms interacting with each other and their physical environment.
20 Clues: The natural environment in which a particular species or community of organisms lives. • A community of living organisms interacting with each other and their physical environment. • Energy from sources that are naturally replenished, such as solar, wind, hydroelectric, and biomass. • ...
Environmental Scavenger Hunt 2025-10-16
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- A green animal that jumps and croaks.
- Tells the time.
- You sit on it.
- Green plant that covers the ground.
- You eat or write on it.
- The smartest living creature.
- Hard object found on the ground.
- You use it to call or text.
- A furry animal that says “meow.”
- Comes from a caterpillar and has colorful wings.
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- Has pages you can read.
- It blooms and has petals.
- Used for traveling on the road.
- You play with it in sports or games.
- Lives in water and has gills.
- Used to carry your things.
- Has a trunk and grows tall.
- It has wings and can fly.
- A loyal pet that barks.
- Used for writing or drawing.
20 Clues: You sit on it. • Tells the time. • Has pages you can read. • You eat or write on it. • A loyal pet that barks. • It blooms and has petals. • It has wings and can fly. • Used to carry your things. • Has a trunk and grows tall. • You use it to call or text. • Used for writing or drawing. • Lives in water and has gills. • The smartest living creature. • Used for traveling on the road. • ...
Environmental scavenger hunt 2025-10-15
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- who instruct students
- pad where you can write
- animal that lays egg
- feline pet
- pet that bark
- human beings
- learns in school
- bound collections of pages with text
- something you wear on your feet at home
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- living creature that is not plant
- place to keep money and card
- where you can drink
- two wheeled vehicle
- furniture with flat top
- opening in wall for light and air
- tall plants with trunks and leaves
- green plant covering the ground
- writing tool made of graphite
- animal that can flies
- ballpoint tip
20 Clues: feline pet • human beings • pet that bark • ballpoint tip • learns in school • where you can drink • two wheeled vehicle • animal that lays egg • who instruct students • animal that can flies • furniture with flat top • pad where you can write • place to keep money and card • writing tool made of graphite • green plant covering the ground • living creature that is not plant • ...
ENVIRONMENTAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE 2025-11-11
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- Large marsupial
- Gases like methane that trap heat in the atmosphere.
- Coal, oil, or natural gas formed from the remains of ancient organisms.
- Organic material from plants or animals used as fuel.
- The clearing of forests by cutting down trees.
- Trash that is thrown away improperly in a public place.
- A renewable energy source often captured by turbines.
- Food or farming methods produced without chemical fertilizers or pesticides.
- Has a trunk
- Flying mammal
- Likes to chase mice
- Able to be maintained at a certain rate or level; environmentally friendly.
- The envelope of gases surrounding the Earth.
- To process used materials for reuse.
- Relating to or derived from the sun.
- Precipitation with high levels of nitric and sulfuric acids.
- The element central to global warming, often released as dioxide.
- Energy derived from the movement of oceans and seas.
- Energy generated from the heat of the Earth.
- The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat.
- Decayed organic material used as a plant fertilizer.
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- person who does not eat or use animal products, often for environmental reasons.
- An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
- A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall.
- The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- The process of wearing away soil or rock.
- A place where waste is buried.
- Energy sources that can be naturally replenished.
- Harmful substances introduced into the environment.
- A layer in the stratosphere that protects Earth from{UV}radiation.
- biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- The process of burning something, releasing gases.
- Man's best friend
- A large, slow-moving mass of ice, often shrinking due to warming.
- The protection of animals, plants, and natural resources.
- A vital resource that covers about of the Earth's surface.
- A species at risk of extinction.
- The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
- Gases or other substances discharged into the air.
- The state or process of a species dying out.
40 Clues: Has a trunk • Flying mammal • Large marsupial • Man's best friend • Likes to chase mice • A place where waste is buried. • A species at risk of extinction. • To process used materials for reuse. • Relating to or derived from the sun. • The process of wearing away soil or rock. • The envelope of gases surrounding the Earth. • The state or process of a species dying out. • ...
ST_U1_L1_intro 2024-09-15
19 Clues: Δύση • ακτή • βουνό • Νότος • χάρτης • Βορράς • Ανατολή • ατύχημα • προκαλώ • ορεινός • πεδιάδα • σεισμός • καταγωγή • κατά μήκος • πρωτότυπος • χερσόνησος • περιβαλλοντικό • συνορεύω, σύνορο • κάθετα (όταν διασχίζει)
risk factors 2025-09-26
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- significant environmental risk factor
- a biggest task risk factor f
- also called contact stress m
- a biggest task risk factor a
- type of vibration '-'
- load characteristic d
- load characteristic s
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- significant environmental risk factor
- a biggest risk factor ends in n
- load characteristic w
- load characteristic h
- the most critical dimension of a container
- type of vibration '-'
- task risk factor m
- environmental risk factor
15 Clues: task risk factor m • load characteristic w • load characteristic h • type of vibration '-' • type of vibration '-' • load characteristic d • load characteristic s • environmental risk factor • a biggest task risk factor f • also called contact stress m • a biggest task risk factor a • a biggest risk factor ends in n • significant environmental risk factor • ...
The Price of Care 2024-09-11
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- people have the resources essential to a healthy life
- the exchange of goods and services takes place
- cost the loss of potential gain
- the coordination and administration of tasks to achieve a goal
- the action of making or manufacturing from components or raw materials
- member of an 18th-century group of French economists
- the action of helping or doing work for someone
- someone who creates and supplies goods or services
- Insufficiency of amount; shortage
- the theory or practice of controlling the supply of money
- people have the resources essential to a healthy life
- anything required for human survival
- refers to the fees and financial obligations
- work, especially hard physical work
- the study of social life, social change, and the social causes
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- studies the decisions of individuals and firms
- the situation where two or more parties depend upon each other
- the peak level of performance that uses the least inputs and max output
- detailed examination of the elements or structure of something
- make available to someone; provide
- what the economy "should be" or "ought to be."
- a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses
- people who buy or use goods and services
- have a desire to possess or do
- focuses on the performance of economies
- the consumer's desire and willingness to buy a product or service economics concerned with the creation, consumption, and transfer of wealth
- the physical or financial resources
- concerned with how human societies sustain themselves materially
- when you choose one thing which causes you to have to give up
- concerned with the application of economic theory
30 Clues: have a desire to possess or do • cost the loss of potential gain • Insufficiency of amount; shortage • make available to someone; provide • the physical or financial resources • work, especially hard physical work • anything required for human survival • focuses on the performance of economies • people who buy or use goods and services • ...
