enviromental crosword
Across
- 3. land-land used for harvesting wood, wildlife, fish, nuts, and other resources
- 5. services-resources produced by natural and artificial ecosystems
- 7. cutting-process of removing all of the trees from an area of land
- 9. land-land that is poorly suited for building
- 10. used to graze livestock and wildlife
- 12. sprawl- rapid expansion of a city into the countryside
- 13. forest-forest consisting of entirely native trees and plants
- 15. cutting-process of cutting and removing only middle aged or mature trees
- 17. movement of people from rural areas to cities
- 18. rangelands improvement act-leases rangeland to ranchers to improve land management
- 20. space-land within urban areas that is set aside for scenic and recreational enjoyment
- 21. land-land that is mostly covered with buildings and roads
- 24. of trees from an area without replacing them
Down
- 1. transit systems-buses, trains, etc. to move many people at one time
- 2. used to grow plants for food and fiber
- 4. urban crisis-when urban areas grow rapidly and overwhelm the infrastructure can lead to traffic jams
- 6. more animals to graze in an area than the range can support
- 8. planning- where houses,businesses, and factories will be built, where land will be protected for recreation, that is determined in advance
- 11. of the things that society build for public use like roads or sewers
- 14. used to grow crops
- 16. land-land that contains relatively few people and large areas of open space
- 19. forest-forest that has never been cut
- 22. and reserves-land used for recreation and scenic enjoyment and for preserving native animal and plant communities and ecosystems
- 23. farm-areas where trees are planted in rows and harvested like other crops