Soil Erosion

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Across
  1. 4. The color of the flood water depends on the color of the ___.
  2. 7. These are ridges of sand formed by the wind.
  3. 10. What is in water that enables it to wash out the soil?
  4. 12. major contributors of soil erosion
  5. 13. s a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry area of land becomes increasingly arid, typically losing its bodies of
  6. 15. Soil erosion is a ___ process.
Down
  1. 1. The ___ of flowing water affects the rate of erosion.
  2. 2. When land is continuously farmed
  3. 3. It refers to the washing away of the top portion of the soil.
  4. 5. a situation in which there are too many cows or other animals eating grass in an area, which damages the environment.
  5. 6. Developing rural areas to urban
  6. 8. It takes 500 years to produce an inch of the ___.
  7. 9. If the soil has___, the crops will not grow very well.
  8. 11. Animals that create tunnels under the ground.
  9. 14. an evidence of soil erosion