Human impacts on the environment vocab
Across
- 3. the clearing or cutting down of forest by human usually for agriculture, urbanization or other land uses
- 5. protection natural resources and ecosystem for the benefit of everyone
- 7. the act of using, eating, or drinking or the amount that is used etc.
- 9. change long term shifts in temperature and weather patterns caused by human activities like burning fossil fuels
- 10. using resources at a particular rate
Down
- 1. the introduction of harmful containment into the environment faster than it can be dispersed or safely stored
- 2. the process of making an area more like a city
- 4. the science and practice of cultivating land to grow crops and raising livestock for food, fiber, and other land uses
- 5. footprint the amount of co2 created by one person
- 6. destruction the outright loss of area used by a wild species
- 7. endangered high treat of going extinct
- 8. restoring an area to its natural state