Environmental systems Extra Credit
Across
- 4. The variety of life on earth
- 6. Layer, this layer protects us from the sun's harmful UV radiation
- 10. The organisms that interact with one another in a similar location
- 11. dioxide, colorless and odorless gas we produce when we breathe out in our daily life
- 13. prevention, Any practice that reduces or prevents pollution at its source
- 14. Measures the air quality of a certain area from a scale of 0-500
- 16. source, various sources to which pollution is taken place making it hard to find solutions for
- 18. Species, A species at risk of extinction because of human activity and changes in climate
- 19. Warming, Long term increase in Earth's average surface temperature
- 20. An underground layer of saturated rock or sediment that stores and releases groundwater
Down
- 1. Cutting of many trees to build infrastructure
- 2. The average weather measurements over a long period of time
- 3. source pollution, type of pollution that comes from one specific source that makes it easier to find a solution to
- 5. Introduction to the environment of a harmful substance
- 7. The study of the interactions between organisms and their environment
- 8. energy, An energy that can be replenished as well as has an infinite amount of
- 9. Place where an organism lives (mostly animals)
- 12. Part of the earth that contains all ecosystems and living things
- 15. Members of a species in an ecosystem
- 17. Everything that includes / surrounds animals, plants, and any living/nonliving parts of a community