Across
- 1. A group of nonrenewable resources including coal, oil, and natural gas
- 3. An environmental __________ is an individual's set of assumptions and values concerning the natural world and what they think their role in managing it should be.
- 6. ________ change is a major environmental problem caused by increasing carbon dioxide levels.
- 7. Biological science that studies how living things interact with the living and nonliving parts of their environment.
- 10. The amount of land and water needed to supply a population with renewable resources and to absorb and recycle the waste and pollution such resource use produces.
- 11. An environmentalist's favorite color.
- 13. One or more communities of different species interacting with one another and with the nonliving environment.
- 14. Resource that exists in a fixed amount and takes millions to billions of years to form, so it will be used more quickly than it can be replaced.
Down
- 2. Capacity of Earth's natural systems to maintain stability or to adapt to changing environmental conditions.
- 4. All the living and nonliving factors in an area.
- 5. Contamination of the environment by any chemical or agent at levels considered harmful to the health, survival, or activities of organisms.
- 8. To use less, or to not waste, a resource.
- 9. Depletion, deterioration, or waste of Earth's natural capital.
- 10. _______ Science is the interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment.
- 12. Resource that can be replenished rapidly through natural processes (in hours to centuries).