Chapter 1 ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. A community of living things and the nonliving things around them working together.
  2. 7. Everything around us, including living and nonliving things.
  3. 8. science The study of how people, animals, plants, and nature affect each other.
  4. 9. resource A resource that does not run out, such as sunlight or wind.
  5. 11. capital The useful things nature provides, such as water, soil, plants, and animals.
Down
  1. 1. The idea of protecting nature and taking care of the environment.
  2. 3. Using Earth's resources wisely so they will still be available in the future.
  3. 4. resource A resource that takes a very long time to form and can run out, such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
  4. 5. resource A resource that nature can replace in a reasonable amount of time, such as trees or fish.
  5. 6. The study of how living things interact with each other and their surroundings.
  6. 7. service Something nature does for us, such as cleaning water, producing oxygen, or pollinating plants
  7. 10. resource Something from nature that people use, such as water, trees, sunlight, or minerals.