Environmental Science Review

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Across
  1. 1. The idea that human released pollutants are causing a rapid change in the earth's long-term weather and short-term events (stronger storms, for example)
  2. 4. living part of the environment
  3. 5. Growth where there is a period of exponential growth but it levels off around the carrying capacity later
  4. 7. Nonliving part of an environment
  5. 9. The role or job an organism has within its environment
  6. 12. An approach to using resources and energy so that they are not used up
  7. 13. How matter (like carbon and water) moves through the earth's different systems (life, geology, hydrology, atmosphere)
  8. 15. Energy derived from atoms radioactively decaying
  9. 16. A group of fuels made from long-dead plants and animals that have been compressed underground
  10. 17. Period when humanity began to use coal and other fossil fuels to provide energy, resulting in a massive socio-economic change
Down
  1. 2. growth When the rate of growth keeps increasing with population size
  2. 3. Ethic that views all life as equal when making changes to the environment
  3. 6. Ethic that views human needs as more important than other living things
  4. 8. Where an organism lives
  5. 10. Act from Congress that requires businesses to pay to clean up hazardous waste they left in the environment
  6. 11. Energy derived from volcanic activity that heats underground water
  7. 14. How many of one species an ecosystem can sustain without being degraded