Across
- 7. Too many fish in a particular stock are caught and there are not enough adults to breed and sustain a healthy population.
- 8. The result of human-induced actions which exploit land, causing its utility, biodiversity, soil fertility, and overall health to decline.
- 9. Food that is fit for consumption but consciously discarded at the retail or consumption phases.
- 10. The purchase of clothes that is trendy but cheap and disposable.
- 11. An unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.
- 12. An introduced, nonnative organism (disease, parasite, plant, or animal) that begins to spread or expand its range from the site of its original introduction and that has the potential to cause harm to the environment, the economy, or to human health.
Down
- 1. The introduction of harmful materials into the environment.It can affect the air and/or the water.
- 2. The lack of fresh water resources to meet the standard water demand.
- 3. The process by which vegetation in drylands i.e. arid and semi-arid lands, such as grasslands or shrublands, decreases and eventually disappears.
- 4. The decline or disappearance of biological diversity.
- 5. The decrease in forest areas across the world that are lost for other uses such as agricultural croplands, urbanization, or mining activities.
- 6. The long-term warming of the planet's overall temperature.