All About Raw Materials

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Across
  1. 1. Countries import raw materials they lack through international trade networks.
  2. 7. Cutting or blasting stone, sand, gravel, and limestone from the earth's surface.
  3. 8. Renewable if managed properly — forests can be replanted, crops regrow each season
  4. 9. Derived from living organisms — plants and animals.
  5. 10. Extracting crude oil and natural gas from beneath the earth or seabed.
Down
  1. 2. Naturally replenished within a human lifetime.
  2. 3. Growing crops, harvesting timber, raising livestock for biological raw materials.
  3. 4. Logging for timber and clearing land for agriculture destroys habitats and reduces biodiversity.
  4. 5. Extracted from the earth through mining.
  5. 6. Formed from ancient organisms over millions of years.