Earth Day Definition-Match Exercise

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14 vocabulary words from the Earth Day puzzles.
    1. _____ Ecology

    2. _____ fauna

    3. _____ endangered

    4. _____ defoliate

    5. _____ deplete

    6. _____ renewable

    7. _____ erode

    8. _____ symbiosis

    9. _____ botanical

    10. _____ revitalize

    11. _____ flourish

    12. _____ sustainable

    13. _____ ozone

    14. _____ apathetic

Match the twelve definitions below to the vocabulary words on the left.
    a. to cause widespread loss of leaves

    b. science concerned with improving living conditions

    c. form of oxygen

    d. act of bringing back to vigor; something replenished

    e. mutual living together (2 different organisms)

    f. to give new vitality to

    g. animals of a given region

    h. of or belonging to a plant species

    i. to eat into or away; destroy

    j. enduring; keeping up and continuing

    k. being in a state peril, risk or harm

    l. lacking concern in things

    m. to grow luxuriantly

    n. to empty or exhaust

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