Social and Environmental Issues
Across
- 3. A very large wave caused by an earthquake or very strong wind
- 5. diseases that are widespread in a country or around the world
- 8. outbreak of a rapidly spreading disease
- 9. A severe shortage of food in which large numbers of people starve
- 10. loss of forest cover in a region that results from trees being destroyed faster than they can grow back
- 12. term generally used to describe a group descended from the earliest inhabitants of a region
Down
- 1. warming increase in earth’s adverse surface temperature over time
- 2. one cause of famine (2 words)
- 4. a reason for poverty (3 words)
- 6. rain a form of pollution in which toxic chemicals in the air come back to earth in the form of rain, snow, or hail
- 7. people who are forced to move because of poverty,war,persecution,natural disasters, or other crisis
- 11. Process that moves small pieces of rock and other earth material from place to place