Across
- 5. trash, such as paper, cans, and bottles, that is left lying in a public place
- 6. protect something, especially an environmentally or culturally important place or thing from harm or destruction
- 8. decayed organic material used as a plant fertilizer
- 10. the layer of gases that surround the planet
- 12. the production and discharge of something, especially gas or radiation
- 13. a species, family, or other, group of animals or plants having no living members, no longer in existence
- 16. a contract, agreement capable of being renewed
- 18. use again
- 19. relating to or determined by the sun
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- 1. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organisms
- 2. the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
- 3. contaminate (water, air, or a place) with harmful or poisonous substances sustainable able to be maintained at a certain rate or level
- 4. maintain something in its original or existing state
- 7. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
- 9. reuse discarded objects in such way as to create a product of a higher quality or values than the original
- 11. a place to dispose of refuse and other waste material by burying it and covering it over with soil, especially as a method of filling in or extending usable land
- 14. a colorless unstable toxic gas
- 15. relating to or derived from living matter
- 17. the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings