Vocabulary: Environment

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Across
  1. 4. rain rain that contains harmful chemicals that collect in the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned.
  2. 6. a gas in the atmosphere that stops heat from escaping into space.
  3. 9. a chemical that's sprayed on crops to stop insects from destroying them.
  4. 10. animals or plants in danger of becoming extinct or disappearing in the near future.
Down
  1. 1. the contamination of the environment, esp. by industrial waste products and chemicals like pesticides.
  2. 2. a fuel like oil or coal formed from very old plant and animal fossils.
  3. 3. dioxide a gas that's released when carbon is burned (for example coal or oil), or when people or animals breathe out
  4. 5. global changes in temperature, wind patterns, rainfall, etc. mainly caused by the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil.
  5. 7. the complex system of relationships between living things and their environment.
  6. 8. no longer existing or lost forever (of an animal, bird or plant species).