Across
- 2. the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
- 4. a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth.
- 9. an area, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.
- 13. another term for biocentrism.
- 14. the state or process of rotting; decay.
- 16. the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet.
- 17. a colourless, transparent, odourless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms
- 18. refers to the ability of things to get disintegrated (decomposed)
- 20. hinking only of oneself, without regard for the feelings or desires of others; self-centred.
- 21. the view or belief that the rights and needs of humans are not more important than those of other living things.
Down
- 1. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
- 3. regarding humankind as the central or most important element of existence, especially as opposed to God or animals.
- 5. is the geological process in which earthen materials are worn away and transported by natural forces such as wind or water.
- 6. a particular place or position.
- 7. all the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.
- 8. an act of moving.
- 10. a particular position, point, or area in space; a location.
- 11. the layer of the earth's atmosphere above the troposphere, extending to about 50 km above the earth's surface (the lower boundary of the mesosphere).
- 12. of or near a coast
- 15. a colourless, odourless reactive gas, the chemical element of atomic number 8 and the life-supporting component of the air.
- 19. the invisible gaseous substance surrounding the earth, a mixture mainly of oxygen and nitrogen.