Earth Day

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Across
  1. 2. Reusing materials
  2. 5. The process of decomposing food and other plants into nutrients and fertilizer
  3. 7. Earth day month!
  4. 9. Very large body of salt water
  5. 10. An example of a liquid fossil fuel being dumped into a water source
  6. 12. The planet which we live on
  7. 13. A plant embryo
  8. 14. Gases that trap heat in Earth's atmosphere
  9. 16. The long-term change in weather patterns
  10. 17. Areas where mass amounts of trash and waste are dumped
Down
  1. 1. Influential book written by Rachel Carson in 1962 which drew attention to climate change
  2. 3. Gas that trees release
  3. 4. A non-renewable energy source
  4. 6. The long-term heating of Earth's surface
  5. 8. The result of smoke from fossil fuels contaminating the air
  6. 9. Concentration of gas found in the stratosphere that traps UV rays
  7. 10. Gas that trees absorb
  8. 11. A living organism with a stem, roots, and leaves
  9. 13. The ability to last for long periods of time
  10. 15. A plant with thicker wooden bark