Environmental/life and earth sciences

2. The introduction of pollutants into the natural environment, making, it dirty, unsafe, or unusable.
5. The capacity to maintain, support, or endure a process, system, or condition over a long period of time without depleting natural resources or causing permanent damage.
9. A group of people who live in the same area or who share common interests, goals, or identities.
10. A living thing that makes its own food using photosynthesis, forming the base of the food chain.
11. The process by which my body of water becomes really enriched with nutrients leading to rapid algae growth, severe oxygen depletion and the death of aquatic life.
13. The natural process where a liquid turns into a gas without needing to reach its boiling point.
14. The light and heat from the sun that people capture and turn into usable or thermal energy.

1. A empirical process used to investigate questions, ideas, and acquire knowledge.
3. A state where a population size remains stable over time because its birth rate and death rate are equal.
4. The scientific study of how living organisms interact with each other and their environment.
6. The capacity to do work, cause change,or produce heat.
7. The growing integration of the worlds economics, culture, technologies, and population across international borders.
8. A person who buys and uses goods or services for personal,family,household use.
10. Any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls to the Earth's surface.
12. An oceanographic process where deep, cold, and nutrient-rich water rises toward the surface to replace warm surface water that has been pushed away.