Across
- 4. — protecting resources, ecosystems, and structures for present and future generations.
- 8. — the place where a plant or an animal lives.
- 10. pets — animals that have not been domesticated, such as boa constrictors, green iguanas, sugar gliders, parrots, and saltwater and freshwater aquarium fish.
- 13. — the genetic variability of living organisms on our planet.
- 15. pets — animals bred for centuries to select traits that make them well-adapted for living with humans.
- 17. species — a species of plant or animal of which numbers are decreasing at an alarming rate and is threatened with extinction by human-made or natural changes in the environment.
- 18. — taking care of our environment by wisely managing its resources.
- 19. — watercraft such as ships.
- 20. — returning resources, ecosystems, and structures to their original (or near-original) condition.
- 21. use — using resources in ways that do not deplete them.
- 22. — no longer existing.
Down
- 1. — kangaroos, wallabies, and other marsupials of the family Macropodidae.
- 2. — a unit of plants, animals, and nonliving components of an environment that interact.
- 3. — a species represented by living creatures.
- 5. — sounds produced for auditory communication.
- 6. — a wireless technology in which information is measured from a remote source and reported to a receiving station for analysis.
- 7. species — a species likely to become endangered.
- 9. — the geographical occurrence of a species of plant or animal.
- 11. — a group of plants or animals of the same species that live in the same area and have the opportunity to breed with each other.
- 12. — organized industry of catching, processing, and selling fishes or other aquatic species.
- 14. — growing or living on land.
- 16. — a fishing line made of a single untwisted strand of synthetic filament.
