Environmental System B

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Across
  1. 3. factors a variable of a system that, if subject to a small change, causes a non-negligible change in an output or other measure of the system.
  2. 6. the process of making an area more urban.
  3. 9. capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other living organisms.
  4. 11. fresh invigorating air, especially that blowing onto the shore from the sea.
  5. 12. nina a cooling of the water in the equatorial Pacific, which occurs at irregular intervals, and is associated with widespread changes in weather patterns complementary to those of El Niño, but less extensive and damaging in their effects.
  6. 13. a region with particular prevailing weather conditions."vacationing in a warm climate"
  7. 15. any of the almost spherical concentric regions of matter that make up the earth and its atmosphere, as the lithosphere and hydrosphere.
  8. 16. the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
  9. 17. warming a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants.
  10. 19. population growth the maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to only what is needed to replace the existing population.
  11. 22. density a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.
  12. 23. the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms.
  13. 24. rate The number of children who would be born per woman
Down
  1. 1. nino an irregularly occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region and beyond every few years, characterized by the appearance of unusually warm, nutrient-poor water off northern Peru and Ecuador, typically in late December.
  2. 2. growth growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size.
  3. 4. resources (of a natural resource or source of energy) existing in finite quantity; not capable of being replenished.
  4. 5. natural event disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples are floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes.
  5. 7. resources is a natural resource which will replenish to replace the portion depleted by usage and consumption, either through natural reproduction or other recurring processes in a finite amount of time in a human time scale.
  6. 8. the number of live births per thousand of population per year.
  7. 10. rate the ratio of deaths to the population of a particular area or during a particular period of time, usually calculated as the number of deaths per one thousand people per year.
  8. 12. growth Carrying capacity can be defined as maximum number of individuals in a population that can be supported by the environment.
  9. 14. the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.
  10. 18. the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet.
  11. 20. capacity the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.
  12. 21. fog or haze combined with smoke and other atmospheric pollutants.