Environmental Science Chapter 2

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Across
  1. 2. Component of Enrvironmental Science that deals with living things (2.1)
  2. 4. Component of Environmental Science that deals with the physical and chemical processes that make up the Earth system (2.1)
  3. 7. The search for ecological stability and human progress that can last over the long term (2.3)
  4. 10. The type of consveration captured by Roosevelt and Pinchot (2.4)
  5. 11. Descendants of the original inhabitants of an area (2.3)
  6. 12. The status of wellbeing in different countires (2.3)
  7. 13. Component of Environmental Science that deals with where environmental features and human activities are located and how they interact (2.1)
  8. 15. The amount of resoruces we use and dispose of (2.3)
  9. 16. Substances in the atmosphere that help it trap heat (2.2)
  10. 18. Services or resources provided by envrionmental systems (2.3)
  11. 19. Recognition of the findamental rights of other organisms and nature as a whole to exist (2.4)
  12. 20. The most critical resource in the 21st century (2.2)
Down
  1. 1. First step in understanding our environment; careful, detailed evaluations (2.1)
  2. 3. A term to describe the valuable goods and services provided by the ocean and its ecosystems that support life on Earth. (2.2)
  3. 5. The state of the air around us and how clean or polluted it is (2.2)
  4. 6. Government organization founded in 1916 to push for preservation of nature rather than competitive uses (2.4)
  5. 8. A term to describe the decrease in number of species because of habitat destruction, overexploitation, pollution, etc. (2.2)
  6. 9. The idea that we can never make all possible observations or ask all possible questions (2.1)
  7. 14. Component of Environmentl Science that deals with how susbtances react with one another (2.1)
  8. 17. Orderly approach to asking questions, collecting observations, and interpreting those observations (2.1)