Across
- 2. The introduction of pollutants into the natural environment, making, it dirty, unsafe, or unusable.
- 5. The capacity to maintain, support, or endure a process, system, or condition over a long period of time without depleting natural resources or causing permanent damage.
- 9. A group of people who live in the same area or who share common interests, goals, or identities.
- 10. A living thing that makes its own food using photosynthesis, forming the base of the food chain.
- 11. The process by which my body of water becomes really enriched with nutrients leading to rapid algae growth, severe oxygen depletion and the death of aquatic life.
- 13. The natural process where a liquid turns into a gas without needing to reach its boiling point.
- 14. The light and heat from the sun that people capture and turn into usable or thermal energy.
Down
- 1. A empirical process used to investigate questions, ideas, and acquire knowledge.
- 3. A state where a population size remains stable over time because its birth rate and death rate are equal.
- 4. The scientific study of how living organisms interact with each other and their environment.
- 6. The capacity to do work, cause change,or produce heat.
- 7. The growing integration of the worlds economics, culture, technologies, and population across international borders.
- 8. A person who buys and uses goods or services for personal,family,household use.
- 10. Any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls to the Earth's surface.
- 12. An oceanographic process where deep, cold, and nutrient-rich water rises toward the surface to replace warm surface water that has been pushed away.