Across
- 4. - energy created from the sun which reduces electricity consumption
- 6. - a community of organisms and their abiotic environment
- 9. - Existing in or derived from nature
- 10. impact - Damage caused to the environment from human activity
- 11. - A site for the disposal of waste materials
- 12. - The action of protecting something for future use
- 14. - The actions we need to take to protect the environment
- 17. - Extending or reaching throughout the world
- 18. - The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives
- 19. - What type of farming method does not use pesticides in their practices?
- 20. - To use less of goods and materials resulting in a smaller amount of waste
- 23. - Make or become different
Down
- 1. - Using a resource over and over rather than throwing it away and ending up in landfill
- 2. Warming - A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide
- 3. - An unhealthy environment where natural materials have been overused
- 5. - The process of making new products from materials that were used in another product.
- 7. - Made by humans rather than occurring in nature which is artificial or synthetic
- 8. - release of harmful materials into the environment caused by industrial emissions, poor disposal of wastes, mining, deforestation, use of fossil fuels and agricultural activities
- 13. - Recycling your organic waste by using a worm farm
- 15. - A form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles as a current.
- 16. Dioxide- What is the colourless and odourless gas produced by burning fossil fuels?
- 18. - The planet on which we live
- 21. Footprint - A measure of how much an individual demands on nature
- 22. - generating environmental, social and economic benefits, while not using up too many resources or causing pollution.