geography

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Across
  1. 4. A gradual increase in global temperature.
  2. 5. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog *smoke + fog*
  3. 10. Cutting flat, stair-step swaths of farmable land on a mountainside.*Used in Asia for rice farming*
  4. 11. Biome near the equator with warm climate wet weather and lush plant growth.
  5. 14. man-made river connecting two bodies of water.
  6. 16. Affects the temperature and amount of moisture an area receives.
  7. 17. Dry and treeless plain that is extremely cold. Contains a layer of permanently frozen subsoil (Permafrost)
  8. 18. The height of land above sea level.
  9. 20. The water body created by damming a river or stream.
  10. 23. Power generated from moving water.* Created by dams *
  11. 24. The removal of trees faster than forests ca replace themselves.
  12. 25. 30-60 degrees north and south of the equator, temperature climate zones.
  13. 27. A region of evergreen coniferous forest below the arctic and subarctic tundra regions.
  14. 28. Sparse, dry, treeless grassland(middle latitudes)
Down
  1. 1. mixes woodland-grassland biome. Short wet and long dry seasons.
  2. 2. The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops.
  3. 3. 60 degrees to the north and south poles, polar climate zones.
  4. 6. The closer you are to the coast, the more mild the climate will be.
  5. 7. Has desidious trees and a temperature climate.
  6. 8. Nuclear power plant in Russia that had an explosion in 1986 and released radioactive materials into the air.
  7. 9. Low, middle, high.
  8. 12. The process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, desertification, or inappropriate agriculture.
  9. 13. Major winds in the Indian Ocean that blew India for half the year, and blew away from India for the other half.*Southern Asia and India*
  10. 14. overall weather in an area over a long period of time.
  11. 15. Lake that has lost 80% of water volume from irrigation projects * former USSR *
  12. 19. A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.*reclaimed from the sea (Netherlands)*
  13. 21. 0-30 degrees north and south, tropical climate zones.
  14. 22. the condition of earths atmosphere at a particular time and place.
  15. 26. A barren region with little or no rainfall usually sandy and without trees.