The Deforestation of Easter Island

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Across
  1. 2. Plant, bacterial, or fungal life
  2. 5. a significant variation in weather patterns over a long period of time.
  3. 8. Surface soil usually including the organic layer in which plants have most of their roots
  4. 10. The purposeful clearing of forested land.
  5. 12. A principle that has been formed as an attempt to explain things that have been substantiated by data.
  6. 13. Huge monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island
Down
  1. 1. An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society.
  2. 3. Nui Native name for the easternmost Island of Polynesia and the most remote inhabited island on Earth.
  3. 4. Currently comprises 90% of Easter Island's landscape
  4. 6. A community of living organisms that work together to form a bubble of life in a specific environment
  5. 7. Organic matter found in sediments which indicated the prior existence of large palm trees
  6. 9. A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation.
  7. 11. Action of exogenic processes which remove soil and rock from one location on the Earth's surface to another.