Carbon and Energy Security
Across
- 3. Planting trees in places with recent tree cover, replacing lost primary forests.
- 4. _____________ circulation.
- 6. The route taken by any form of energy from its source to its point of consumption (6,7).
- 8. _____________ turnover. The rate at which carbon enters and leaves a store.
- 11. 1,000,000,000,000 kilograms.
- 12. Any change from a natural ecosystem to an alternative use; it usually reduces carbon and water stores (4,10).
- 14. Natural gas trapped in fine-grained sedimentary rocks.
- 15. Organic matter used as a fuel.
- 17. Country which pioneered the use of biofuels.
- 18. The processes operating in oceans to circulate and store carbon.
Down
- 1. A fuel derived from living matter.
- 2. A new geological era beginning 8,000 years ago when humans began farming. Reflects the view that humans are the main driver of Earth's processes.
- 5. Processes and actions associated with human activity.
- 7. An abrupt change in an ecological state (8,9)
- 9. The leading international organisation for the scientific assessment of climate change (acronym).
- 10. Planting trees on land that has never had forest.
- 13. Name of Dr Gleave's cat
- 16. A mixture of clay, sand, water and bitumen (3,5).