Earth's Resources and Environmental Protection
Across
- 5. National forests provide 150 million visitor days of these.
- 6. The amount of Nitrogen average air contains.
- 9. The type of forestry where the number of trees harvested does not exceed the number replaced by new growth.
- 12. The amount of timber harvesting worldwide used for fuel.
- 13. Anything created through natural processes that people use and value.
- 14. The ability for one substance to be used for another.
- 15. Generated by fission or fusion.
Down
- 1. Elevated levels of impurities in the environment caused by human activity.
- 2. Energy of moving water being used to generate electricity.
- 3. A layer of Earth is bulldozed over garbage each day.
- 4. Form so slowly that they cannot be replaced when used.
- 7. Oil, natural gas, and coal are known as these.
- 8. The amount of dollars spent on the construction of new sewage-treatment plants since mid 1960's.
- 10. Chemicals that are harmful even in very low concentrations.
- 11. The amount of HECTACRES of Earth's land surface that is covered with forest and woodland.