vocabulary exercise

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Across
  1. 2. carnivores are at the top of the _
  2. 5. any kind of weather condition where something's falling from the sky
  3. 7. the destruction of forests
  4. 11. Volkswagen exhaust _ scandal began in 2015
  5. 12. the process of becoming desert
  6. 13. more frequent wildfires are an effect of _ change
  7. 14. the community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
  8. 15. a period of dryness
Down
  1. 1. Tens of thousands of elephants are being killed every year for their _ tusks
  2. 3. the practice of, e.g., producing crops
  3. 4. symbiosis is a mutual _ of two species
  4. 6. biological variety in an environment
  5. 8. A glacier's gradual movement causes _
  6. 9. a tragic event
  7. 10. illegal hunting
  8. 11. an animal under the threat of becoming extinct is _