Environmental Change and Management Crossword
Across
- 3. Supports life on earth without requiring human action eg. decomposition
- 5. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
- 6. The ability of natural environments to absorb wastes and pollution
- 7. All the water on earth
- 9. Part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere
- 12. The solid, outer layer of the earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
- 14. The action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.
- 15. Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
- 16. Release of harmful materials into the environment
- 19. Worldview holding that we can manage the earth for our benefit but that we have an ethical responsibility to be caring and re
- 20. The environment's provision of raw materials and natural resources eg food
Down
- 1. Occurs when natural or human-induced processes decrease the future ability of land to support crops, livestock, or wild speci
- 2. Hazardous waste causing danger from chemicals and infectious organisms
- 4. The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
- 8. The cultural, recreational or psychological value of the environment for people
- 10. The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet
- 11. The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- 13. A term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals.
- 17. An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic change
- 18. The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates