Chapter 2: Land and Water

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Across
  1. 2. Increasingly, people will be forced to migrate in search of ___ land and water.
  2. 3. It takes ___ liters of water to produce food for one person per day.
  3. 5. China's ___ may be the worst in the world.
  4. 7. Haiti's forests are depleting due to ___.
  5. 10. ___ has recently replaced much of its grain with less water-dependent crops in an effort to save face.
  6. 11. ___ lost 66 million hectacres of land and may have more environmental refugees in the future.
  7. 12. ___is overpumping its aquifers by an average of 5 billion tons per year.
  8. 14. It takes ___ tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain.
  9. 15. Grain harvest dropped by 40 percent during the past 10 years in ___.
Down
  1. 1. After ___, the price of gas temporarily jumped to $3 a gallon.
  2. 4. ___, due to its low GDP and Western exploitation, has many environmental refugees.
  3. 5. In the 1930's, America witnessed the impact of its agricultural over-expansion with the ___.
  4. 6. "A country water-poor as it is oil-rich"
  5. 8. ___find it more profitable to sell their water than to produce crops.
  6. 9. In 2008, 50,000 refugees from ___ reached Yemen
  7. 13. Thin layer of soil that covers the planet's land surface.