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