AP Environmental

3. A severe lack of rainfall that can lead to a shortage
5. changes to the natural DNA of an organism are called ______
7. A gas located in the stratosphere that deflects harmful rays from the Sun.
11. substances, gases, or objects that are put into the environment and cause it harm cause ______
13. the correction efforts after an environmental crisis such as an oil spill.
14. the process of land increasing infrastructure such as highways and having a growing population
15. These are changes to the prevailing winds in the Indian Ocean mostly that cause wet and dry seasons

1. all of the water on or over Earth's surface including bodies of water and clouds
2. The collection of pollutants or contaminants inside the body of an organism
4. creation of new species as a species evolves into something totally different.
6. The long term weather patterns of an area
8. The Dodo Bird is ______
9. trying to rectify or correct harm done to the environment
10. The amount of light reflected off of a surface
12. the act of illegally killing an animal, typically for money
15. the cardboard diagram was a great _____ of the watershed