Europe: Human-Environment Interaction
Across
- 3. These grow rapidly, die, decay, use up oxygen and kill fish
- 6. A man-made freshwater lake in the Netherlands
- 9. Venice is made up of 120 of these
- 10. Needed to support buildings; forests are gone because of it
- 11. Country that lies below sea level
- 13. These are used by the Dutch to pump water off the land
- 14. Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions produce this; it kills trees
- 16. This has allowed seawater in and caused floooding
Down
- 1. An arm of the North Sea the Dutch blocked off
- 2. Clearing forests from an area
- 4. Italian city that uses canals, not roads to get around
- 5. High earthen platforms that offer safety during floods
- 7. Land reclaimed from the sea and is now useful to people
- 8. Structures used to control the sea
- 12. Sewage combines with this to threaten Venice
- 15. Banks made of earth to hold back the sea