lesson 3 impacts in land
Across
- 2. A resource that can be replaced or grown back naturally in a short amount of time.
- 5. A way of managing forests so that we get the wood we need today without damaging the forest’s ability to grow back for the future.
- 6. The clearing or cutting down of wide areas of trees, usually to clear land for farming or building.
- 8. The process by which fertile land becomes dry and desert-like, often due to over-farming or drought.
- 9. The process where wind, water, or ice wears away and moves soil and rocks from one place to another.
Down
- 1. Resources that exist in a limited supply and take millions of years to form, so they can't be replaced once they are used up.
- 3. Anything from nature that people can use to meet their needs, like water, wood, or minerals.
- 4. A gas made of three oxygen atoms. It has two "personalities" depending on where it is
- 7. This is any form of precipitation—like rain, snow, or fog—that has become much more acidic than normal
- 10. A thick, hazy mixture of air pollutants that often looks like a brownish cloud hanging over cities.