Geography: Human Environment Interaction
Across
- 2. the production of electricity from waterpower
- 3. extra fee on activity that puts carbon into the atmosphere to make things that produce carbon more expensive
- 4. the availability of natural resources affects countries' ____
- 8. any material in nature that people use and value
- 9. a greenhouse gas that is more impactful on climate change than carbon dioxide
- 11. resources Earth replaces naturally
- 15. nonrenewable resources that formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals
- 17. a giant building with a battery that can store energy from solar panels
- 18. planting trees to replace lost forestland
- 19. a dark liquid used to make fuels and other products
- 20. nonrenewable valuable resources that include metals, salt, rocks, and gemstones
Down
- 1. hundreds of turbines create electricity in windy places
- 5. the name of petroleum when it is first removed from the ground
- 6. resources that cannot be replaced
- 7. keep global warming below 2 degrees Celcius by reducing carbon emissions
- 10. help slow climate change by absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and hold it in the plants
- 12. a type of modern windmill
- 13. the clearing of trees
- 14. a reliable energy source for heat that pollutes the air and harms the land
- 16. the cleanest-burning fossil fuel
- 17. energy created from heat within the Earth