Environmental Degradation
Across
- 2. Melting _______ are also a result of global warming
- 4. A dominant source of air pollution
- 6. Forest degradation is a major factor in this country
- 9. A harmful gas released into the atmosphere from landfill sites
- 13. A cause of environmental degradation
- 14. Occurs when the natural world suffers from human activity
- 15. The earth is surrounded by a layer of
- 16. Carbon ________ is the most damaging greenhouse gas
- 18. Type of farming that occurs small scale
- 22. A disease that results from the pollution of water sources
- 23. When a body receives too many nutrients and excessive plant growth takes place
- 24. Global _______ is the greatest environmental threat to the 21st century
- 25. ________ towns are poor quality housing on the outskirts of towns and cities
- 26. _______ bloom is when algae grow rapidly in seas as a result of nutrients added from farm fertilizers
Down
- 1. The rapid removal of trees and forest cover
- 3. The rising temperature in the Caribbean see are _________ the coral reefs
- 5. The type of pollution that includes gases
- 7. Planting or adding of trees in an area where there was a forest
- 8. A substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects
- 10. Deforestation causes significant threat to _______ living in the area
- 11. The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth
- 12. Planting or adding of trees in an area where there was never a forest or plantation
- 17. The blockage of drainage systems result in what type of pollution
- 19. The type of pollution that causes the most damage to hearing
- 20. Type of rain where chemicals are dissolved in the rainwater
- 21. Processing items so that they can be used again
- 22. Signs of global warming are mainly seen by the changes in _________