Human Impact on the environment

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Across
  1. 2. Pollution, hunting, ecological disasters can all cause this to happen to a species
  2. 6. A species of animal at serious risk for extinction
  3. 7. is short-term changes in temperature, precipitation, clouds, wind, and other things from day to day or minute to minute.
  4. 9. Any harmful material created as a result of human activity and released into the environment.
  5. 10. A species of animal at serious risk for extinction
  6. 13. Patterns and averages of temperature, precipitation, clouds, wind, and other things over many years.
  7. 14. How fast we consume resources and generate waste.
  8. 15. Measurable long-term changes in averages of temperature, clouds, winds, precipitation, and the frequency of extreme weather events
  9. 16. Use of resources at a rate that they can be replaced or recycled.
Down
  1. 1. resources Any natural resource available in limited amounts or replaced extremely slowly by natural processes.
  2. 3. Non-native species whose introduction causes, or is likely to cause, economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.
  3. 4. The process in which certain gases (carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor) trap sunlight in Earth’s atmosphere as heat.
  4. 5. resources Any resource replaced by natural processes more quickly than it is consumed.
  5. 8. resources Any material or organism in the biosphere, including water, soil, fuel, plants, and animals.
  6. 11. The cutting down of forests.
  7. 12. The process of changing habitats into smaller sections where a smaller number of species can survive.