Intro to Environmental Science

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Across
  1. 5. pollutants that can be broken down by natural processes
  2. 10. all the water on earth
  3. 11. a principle the geologic processes that occurred in the past can be explained by current geologic processes
  4. 17. any natural resource that can be replenished in a relatively short period of time
  5. 18. the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial
  6. 19. all the living things in an ecosystem
  7. 22. the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
Down
  1. 1. an undesired change in the air, water, or soil that adversely affects the health, survival, or activities of humans or toher organisms
  2. 2. the part of the Earth where life exists
  3. 3. a thin layer of gases surrounding Earth
  4. 4. a term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals
  5. 6. the change form food gathering to food production
  6. 7. a record of geologic events and ife forms in Earth's history
  7. 8. human's impact on the Earth
  8. 9. the solid part of the Earth consisting of the crust and the outer mantle
  9. 12. materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
  10. 13. a large extinction of species in a relatively short period of time
  11. 14. the impact of a person or community on the environment expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources
  12. 15. pollutants that cannot be broken down by natural processes
  13. 16. the ability to keep in existence natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance
  14. 20. any community of living and nonliving things that work together
  15. 21. non-living things in an ecosystem