Across
- 4. community of living things interacting with their environment
- 5. element central to greenhouse gases and climate change
- 6. decayed organic matter used to enrich soil
- 8. measure of how hot or cold something is
- 10. variety of plant and animal life in an area
- 12. amount of water vapour in the air
- 14. harmful substances introduced into the environment
- 17. using resources in a way that avoids depletion
- 19. long-term pattern of weather in a region
- 22. wearing away of land by water, wind, or ice
- 23. process of turning waste into reusable material
- 24. natural home of a plant or animal
- 25. clearing of forests on a large scale
Down
- 1. protection and careful management of nature
- 2. overflow of water onto normally dry land
- 3. effect where gases trap heat in the atmosphere
- 7. large body of salt water important to climate systems
- 9. gases released into the atmosphere
- 11. long period with little or no rainfall
- 13. condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place
- 15. dense forest with high rainfall and rich biodiversity
- 16. slow-moving mass of ice on land
- 18. energy that comes from the Sun
- 20. energy source that can be naturally replaced
- 21. moving air used to generate power