ENVIRONMENT

2. short-term changes in the temperature, humidity, precipitation, and other conditions in the troposphere at a given place and time.
5. To collect and reprocess a resource so that it can be made into new products
7. a layer of porous rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
8. place or type of place where an organism or population of organisms live.
10. The parts of the earth’s air, water, and soil where life is found.

1. terrestrial regions inhabited by certain types of life, especially vegetation
3. Series of large waves generated when part of the ocean floor suddenly rises or drops.
4. electrical energy produced by falling or flowing water.
6. Chemical or form of radiation that causes changes (mutations) in the DNA
9. Complex mixture of inorganic minerals (clay, silt, pebbles, and sand)
11. Biological science that studies relationships between living organisms and their environment.
12. cannot be created or destroyed