Greenland Impacts and OMG
Across
- 3. Type of radar used to measure ice thickness
- 9. earth minerals: Valuable mining resources found in Greenland
- 11. Process of expanding the economy beyond fishing
- 13. mining: Economic activity enabled by increased sediment in the Sermeq Delta
- 15. grief: Emotional distress caused by environmental and cultural loss
- 17. Financial payments Greenland receives from Denmark
- 18. Melting Greenland: NASA project monitoring glacier melt
- 19. Type of ocean water melting glaciers from below
- 20. Organisation that protects the Ilulissat Icefjord
Down
- 1. Type of understanding improved by the OMG project
- 2. Instruments dropped into the ocean to collect temperature data
- 4. Type of technology including GPS, satellites and GIS
- 5. dogs: Traditional form of transport affected by sea ice loss
- 6. Economic sector growing in Greenland as ice retreats
- 7. Ice Sheet: Large ice mass covering most of Greenland
- 8. Type of level predicted to rise due to Greenland ice melt
- 10. Toxic substance released into rivers by melting glaciers
- 12. Scale at which the OMG project operates
- 14. Description of fjords that allow warm water to reach glacier bases
- 16. Rate at which some glaciers are retreating due to OMG findings