Envirothon Vocabulary 2025

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Across
  1. 2. Discarded materials that still have useful physical or chemical properties after serving their original purpose and can be reused or remanufactured to make new products
  2. 4. A burrowing animal
  3. 5. An animal that eats meat and plants
  4. 8. Active at night
  5. 9. Active during the day
  6. 11. An animal that eats insects
  7. 13. Birthed or hatched requiring significant care
  8. 14. An animal who is hatched or birthed in an advanced state
  9. 16. The land area that drains into a waterbody like a creek, stream, river or ocean
  10. 20. "wish-cycling" when someone puts something that's not recyclable in a recyclable collection container in the hopes it's recyclable
  11. 22. The wise use of resources
  12. 23. The president who made earth day an official holiday.
  13. 24. An animal that eats plants
Down
  1. 1. The extraction of useful material or energy from a waste stream such as heat from the burning of municipal solid waste
  2. 3. Contamination of air, soil, or water with harmful substances or substances that could become harmful later on.
  3. 6. Organic Materials-such as wood, food scraps, paper, and grass clippings- things that decay under normal conditions
  4. 7. The place where unwanted materials are deposited, compacted and covered with dirt
  5. 10. Active during dawn or dusk
  6. 12. An animal that eats meat
  7. 15. Someone who uses resources wisely
  8. 17. To reuse materials such as glass, aluminum, steel, and plastic to make new products.
  9. 18. All of the natural and living things surrounding us (Including air, water, vegetation, climate, wildlife, humans) that have an influence on us and our physical and biological existence
  10. 19. The responsible overseeing and protection of something considered worth caring for and preserving
  11. 21. Any substance that negatively affects the health of humans, animals or ecosystems