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- 4. plants with brightly colored petals
- 7. wasted or spoiled food and other refuse, as from a kitchen or household
- 8. trash, such as paper, cans, and bottles, that is left lying in an open or public place.
- 9. convert (waste) into reusable material
- 12. a living organism of the kind characterized by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses. Sometimes found in a home or office for greenery.
- 13. the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
- 15. The month in which we celebrate Earth Day
- 16. to make smaller in size, amount, or number
- 18. to make less harmful or to be more sensitive to the environment. Many companies are moving to the _____ movement.
- 19. to use again or more than once
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- 1. to protect (something, especially an environmentally or culturally important place or thing) from harm or destruction.
- 2. the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth
- 3. the introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.
- 5. a colorless, transparent, odorless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.
- 6. a large body of salt water that covers ~70.8% of the Earth
- 10. Renewable resources include sunlight, wind, the movement of water, and geothermal heat. Also known as clean ______.
- 11. a mixture of ingredients used as plant fertilizer and to improve soil's physical, chemical, and biological properties.
- 12. a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant
- 14. a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves
- 17. the planet on which we live