ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND MANAGEMENT

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Across
  1. 1. Preferred location of an organism because it has the correct water, temperature, minerals and sunlighT
  2. 4. The ongoing capacity of Earth to maintain all life
  3. 5. Change in global or regional climate patterns
  4. 7. Process of social and economic change that takes place as increasing numbers of people move from rural areas
  5. 10. Complex community made up of living organisms that interact with each other and with their environment
  6. 11. Any substance that is released into the environment that causes damage
  7. 13. Dying out and complete disappearance of a species (e.g. plant or animal)
  8. 14. A park that is protected by the environment
Down
  1. 2. Variety of living organisms (i.e. plants, animals, bacteria and fungi) found in an environment
  2. 3. Term used to describe the negative effects of invasive species (such as bacteria, parasites and invasive plants and animals) that do harm to an environment
  3. 6. The transformation of fertile land into relatively dry desert
  4. 8. Measure of the amount of salt present in the soil
  5. 9. Removal of trees and other plant life from a forested area, either by cutting down or burning; usually carried out to clear the land for farming
  6. 12. Wearing away of the Earth’s surface by wind, water or ice