Sustainability

1. Range of living things
5. Animal gas
7. Conditions that change daily
9. Can be caused by natural phenomena or anthropogenic
11. Solidified water in the ground
14. Food producing industry
15. To look after
16. Corrosive water
17. Super pollutant that is approx. 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide
18. Describes the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities
22. No longer exists
23. Environmental components that include air, sunlight, chemical elements and temperature
24. The most abundant greenhouse gas that also forms part of the earth’s water cycle
25. The act of preserving resources for use by future generations
29. Can cause landslides
30. The part of the environment that includes soil, microbes, plants and animals
31. Heat trapping gas created by burning fossil fuels
32. Environmental components that include plants, animals, algae and microbes
34. Although this can be naturally occurring it can also be caused by changing land use

2. Removing trees
3. Contains nutrients that causes excessive plant growth
4. The age of man
6. Dark, cool areas of the sun that can cause magnetic storms
8. These could be alpine, aquatic, costal or built
10. Greenhouse gasses cause this
12. The environment that we breathe
13. Slow process of change
14. What is happening to the sea
19. The average weather conditions for a particular location over a long period of time
20. The name for the environment that includes oceans, rivers, lakes, icecaps, rainwater and condensation
21. Rocky environment
26. Man-made
27. Natural phenomena that creates greenhouse gasses
28. Not enough water
33. This protective layer has been depleted by pollution