Environmental Stuff
Across
- 1. a piece of glowing, charred, or burned wood or other combustible substance.
- 4. the place where a person or thing is usually found
- 6. grass or other plants for feeding livestock.
- 7. refined from oil
- 9. the act of extinguishing
- 12. Cause global warming
- 14. precipitation, as rain, snow, or sleet, containing relatively high concentrations of acid-forming chemicals
- 15. the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed.
- 16. naturally created from the environment
- 17. land suitable for or used for the cultivation of crops.
- 19. The process in which land becomes desert
- 22. Occupation related to raising crops, cultivating land, and breeding labor animals
- 25. the act or process of fusing; the state of being fused.
- 26. the process by which a nonsaline soil becomes saline
- 27. refined or crude petroleum.
- 28. smoke or other atmospheric pollutants combined with fog in an unhealthy or irritating mixture.
Down
- 2. a black or dark-brown shale or siltstone rich in bitumens, from which shale oil is obtained by destructive distillation.
- 3. Global climate rise due to the Greenhouse Gas effect
- 5. the act or state of eroding
- 7. the act or state of being polluted
- 8. to divest or clear of forests or trees
- 10. the processes involved in dealing with the waste of humans and organisms, including minimization, handling, processing, storage, recycling, transport, and final disposal
- 11. Being without moisture
- 13. Vast natural landscape
- 18. radioactive waste
- 19. the act or process of decomposing
- 20. any combustible organic material, as oil, coal, or natural gas, derived from the remains of former life.
- 21. the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops
- 23. the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
- 24. the act of cleaving or splitting into parts.