Biospheres
Across
- 3. fuels a natural fuel such as coal or gas
- 5. the totality of our sorroundings
- 7. cycle the naturally occurring processes in which carbon is exchanged
- 10. warming the gradual rise in average temperatures in the atmosphere
- 11. the variety of all life forms
- 12. the inability to meet the basic needs of living
Down
- 1. the release of any hazardous or potentially hazardous substance into the environment
- 2. the expansion of deserts due to overgrazing, soil erosion etc.
- 4. the accumulation of substances such as pesticides in an organism
- 5. the relationship between living things and their physical environment
- 6. degradation the downgrading of the productive capacity of land due to the activites of people
- 8. the physical environment in which a community of plants and animals lives
- 9. a species of animal or plant that no longer exist
- 10. effect the atmospheric processes that maintain an average surface temperature of 15 degrees