Land & Water Management

1234567891011
Across
  1. 2. The process of when the wind picks up particles of soil and sand and blows them to another location.
  2. 5. Management plan for a whole drainage basin.
  3. 7. the activity of planning, developing, distributing and managing the optimum use of water resources.
  4. 9. Land degradation caused by the increase of salinity in the soil, making the soil infertile and unusable for farming.
  5. 11. The process of managing the use and development (in both urban and rural settings) of land resources.
Down
  1. 1. The process of grazing the grassland so heavily to the point where vegetation is damaged and the ground becomes liable to erosion.
  2. 2. A term used to describe the quality, whether dirty or clean, of the water in a certain area.
  3. 3. a process that is able to be maintained at a specific level for a period of time.
  4. 4. The type of species that are living outside its’ distributional range.
  5. 6. a concept in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by one or a combination of human induced processes acting upon the land.
  6. 7. The process of when the water picks up particles of soil or sand and moves them to another location.
  7. 8. The process of the removal of native trees and vegetation.
  8. 10. The level below which the ground is saturated with water