Your Environment

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. No longer active (10)
  2. 5. The activity of protecting something from loss or danger (12)
  3. 7. Undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as (9)
  4. 8. Capable of being ___ (11)
  5. 10. Capable of being ___ (9)
  6. 13. A fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter (7)
  7. 14. The state of being ___ (13)
  8. 15. The utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing (11)
  9. 16. The power to do work or make things move (6)

Down

  1. 1. The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful (12)
  2. 3. The maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical (12)
  3. 4. An international organization that works for environmental conservation and the preservation (10)
  4. 6. The natural world around us (11)
  5. 9. A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment (9)
  6. 11. The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized (6)
  7. 12. Any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted (5)