Ecology Human Impact

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Across
  1. 2. Earth system that consists of plants.
  2. 3. The extraction or removal of minerals or other geological materials from the Earth.
  3. 4. The financial effects of an action.
  4. 7. The processes of natural systems that directly or indirectly benefit humans.
  5. 10. Earth system that consists of the land.
  6. 13. When one organism or event effects another organism or event.
  7. 16. Processes that make ecosystems clean, sustainable, functional, and resilient to change
  8. 17. An organism that causes ecological or economic harm in a new environment where it is not native
  9. 19. Earth system that consists of the air.
  10. 20. Additional consequences that can occur after a direct impact
  11. 22. The Earth´s interacting physical, chemical, and biological processes.
  12. 24. A natural substance that is not replenished with the speed at which it is consumed
  13. 25. Impacts that affect peoples health, safety, or feelings.
  14. 26. Earth system that consists of the water.
Down
  1. 1. The flow of chemical elements between living organisms and the physical environment
  2. 5. The non-material benefits people obtain from nature.
  3. 6. Services that are necessary for the production of all other ecosystem services
  4. 8. Nature's way of reusing carbon atoms, which travel from the atmosphere into organisms in the Earth and then back into the atmosphere over and over again.
  5. 9. Limiting or controlling certain factors
  6. 11. The practice of preparing soil for planting, producing crops, and raising livestock
  7. 12. The process of breaking down an organic material or substance into smaller parts, especially by the action of decomposers
  8. 14. The condition in which all acting influences are balanced or canceled by equal opposing forces, resulting in a stable and balanced system.
  9. 15. Decrease in the population of people living in farming communities and the increase of people living in cities
  10. 18. Any type of benefit to people that can be extracted from nature.
  11. 21. Resources can be used repeatedly and do not run out because it is naturally replaced in a relatively short amount of time
  12. 23. Changes have consequences that impact the environment.
  13. 27. The geological process in which earth materials are worn away and transported by natural forces such as wind or water.