Environmental Vocabulary
Across
- 1. The complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit
- 6. Energy produced from Earth's own internal steam and hot water
- 7. Compound used in refrigerants and making plastics which can deplete the ozone
- 15. rise in global temperature which is due to increases in CO2 from deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels
- 18. factor that limits the growth, abundance, or distribution of the population of an ecosystem
- 20. Process in which heavy atomic nuclei split into smaller, lighter nuclei
Down
- 2. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
- 3. Percentage of population living in areas with greater than 2,500
- 4. Diversity of an ecosystem which is determined by the variety of species of plants and animals
- 5. Natural resource such as fresh air and most groundwater that can be used indefinitely without causing a reduction in the available supply
- 8. An organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen and often occurring in petroleum, natural gas, and coal
- 9. A nonliving condition or thing, as climate or habitat, that influences or affects an ecosystem and the organisms in it
- 10. Resource that exists in Earth's crust in a fixed amount and can be replaced only by geological, physical, or chemical processes that take hundreds of millions of years
- 11. Maximum population a species can support
- 12. Any living component that affects another organism
- 13. Involves global management of Earth's natural resources to ensure that current and future energy needs will be met without harming the environment
- 14. Nonrenewable energy resource formed over geologic time from the compression and partial decomposition of organisms that lived millions of years ago
- 16. Natural heating of Earth's surface by atmospheric gases. CO2, 03, CFC's, NO2
- 17. Biological material derived from living or recently living organisms
- 19. Removal of trees from an area without adequate replanting, often using clear cutting which results in loss of topsoil and water pollution