Sustainability

3. something capable of decaying into its basic components
5. covers 71% of earth's surface
10. drawn towards nature, love of life and living
11. pale-blue gas disappearing from the upper atmosphere
14. eliminating waste by reusing, sharing, repairing, and recycling resources: _economy
15. planting of forests on land that has been depleted
16. chemical process in plants, algae and some bacteria that occurs when exposed to sunlight
18. anything that was once a living organism
21. contamination of the environment
22. the act of saving/maintaining a species
24. way of living

1. pollinator vital to human food production
2. variety of living things inhabiting the planet
4. productive with minimum waste
6. working together
7. rainforest home to approx. 10% of known species and storing 120 billion tons of carbon
8. boneless fish with electroreceptor organs, apex predators vital to marine ecosystems
9. largest land animal, critically endangered
12. a means of public transport
13. very dry, desert-like
17. fastest declining group of species, coastal marine
19. organic matter recycled into soil-enriching fertilizer
20. illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals
23. type of transport good for you and the planet