'Environment' by Chiara Vasta
Across
- 2. power power derived from nuclear energy
- 7. pollution contamination of air by smoke and harmful gases, mainly oxides of carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen
- 10. the act or process of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of soil, water, or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances
- 11. anything suggesting a violent storm
- 13. official supervision of rivers, forests, and other natural resources in order to preserve and protect them through prudent management
- 15. worthless, unwanted material that is rejected or thrown out; debris; litter; trash
- 17. to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable
- 18. a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged
- 19. a substance produced by or used in a chemical process
Down
- 1. energy any naturally occurring, theoretically inexhaustible source of energy, as biomass, solar, wind, tidal, wave, and hydroelectric power, that is not derived from fossil or nuclear fuel
- 3. species a species at risk of extinction because of human activity, changes in climate, changes in predator-prey ratios, etc.
- 4. to divest or clear of forests or trees
- 5. a period of dry weather, especially a long one that is injurious to crops
- 6. warming an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect
- 8. effect an atmospheric heating phenomenon, caused by short-wave solar radiation
- 9. pollution the addition of harmful chemicals to natural water. Sources of water pollution in the United States include industrial waste, run-off from fields treated with chemical fertilizers, and run-off from areas that have been mined
- 12. the act of a person, animal, or thing that hunts
- 14. to fish (an area) excessively
- 16. bank a large container into which the public may throw glass bottles for recycling
- 20. a low area of land that is built up from deposits of solid refuse in layers covered by soil