Environmental Geography

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Across
  1. 2. The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops.
  2. 3. The selling of government owned businesses to private citizens
  3. 8. waterways In international law, international waterways are straits, canals, and rivers that connect two areas of the high seas or enable ocean shipping to reach interior ports on international seas, gulfs, or lakes that otherwise would be land-locked.
  4. 11. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
  5. 13. The pumping of water at high pressure to break apart rocks in order to release natural gas
  6. 14. able to be maintained at a certain rate or level
  7. 15. the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
  8. 16. also known as international trade, works through a flow of huge complex supply chains between the countries that source raw materials, to the countries that manufacture the raw materials, and later to the consumer nation, which is the nation that puts the final product to use
  9. 18. Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
  10. 19. the demand for a good or service is greater than the availability of the good or service
  11. 21. legal right to use water from a river, stream, or other body for a purpose
  12. 23. swap financial transactions in which a portion of a developing nation's foreign debt is forgiven in exchange for local investments in environmental conservation
  13. 25. a natural event such as a flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life.
  14. 27. a long period without rain
  15. 28. A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country.
  16. 31. selling products to another country
  17. 33. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.
  18. 34. Cycle the continuous circulation of water in the Earth-Atmosphere system. At its core, the water cycle is the motion of the water from the ground to the atmosphere and back again
  19. 35. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for humans
Down
  1. 1. involves the removal of the Earth's surface all the way down to the level of the mineral seam.
  2. 4. The longest or shortest days of the year
  3. 5. fish to the point that species are depleted and the value of the fishery reduced
  4. 6. buying products from another country
  5. 7. When water availability is not enough to ensure the population of an area enjoys good health, livelihood and earnings. This can be caused by water insufficiency or poor water quality.
  6. 9. a factory in Mexico run by a foreign company and exporting its products to the country of that company
  7. 10. alters the flow of waterways for a variety of reasons
  8. 12. either of the two moments in the year when the Sun is exactly above the Equator and day and night are of equal length
  9. 17. The Aral Sea dried up as the waters of its source rivers were diverted for irrigation. The waters of two main rivers, the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya, were used for cotton cultivation, decreasing the sea's water level over the years.
  10. 20. The demand for lumber, especially hardwoods from tropical rainforests, has led to extensive deforestation in the tropical regions of Central Africa, the Amazon Basin, and Southeast Asia.
  11. 22. has become the common term consumers and popular media use to describe foods that have been created through genetic engineering.
  12. 24. A system of creating "steps" on a slope in order to create farmable land
  13. 26. Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.
  14. 29. Agricultural revolution that increased production through improved seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation; helped to support rising Asian populations.
  15. 30. Due to overpopulation, Japanese cities have experienced poisoning from these industrial pollutants. They can cause disease and birth defects.
  16. 32. a usually artificial lake that is used to store a large supply of water