Impact on Land
Across
- 4. The development of land for houses and other buildings near a city.
- 5. The contamination of the environment with substances that are harmful to life.
- 7. resource Something from Earth that living things use to meet their needs.
- 8. a natural resource that a growing human population needs to build more houses and roads.
- 9. The careful use of Earth’s materials to reduce damage to the environment.
- 10. the process of using fewer resources (hint- one of the three R's)
- 12. The process by which individuals plant trees to replace ones that have been removed.
- 13. The cutting of large areas of forests for human activity.
Down
- 1. ecosystem type where deforestation is a serious problem.
- 2. the first national park in the world
- 3. another way land environments can be harmed other than human activities
- 5. an impact of urbanization that prevents water from soaking in the soil due to covering an area of land with a hard, durable surface like concrete.
- 6. the process of restoring land disturbed by mining.
- 11. a mixture of decaying organic matter to help reduce the amount of trash.