Unit 3 Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. The science or practice of cultivating soil or raising livestock for the purpose of economic or humanitarian benefit
  2. 4. The deliberate and purposeful removal of forestry for the use of resources.
  3. 9. The shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change
  4. 11. A forest or woodland area that has regenerated through largely natural processes after human-caused disturbances, such as timber harvest or agriculture clearing, or equivalently disruptive natural phenomenon.
  5. 13. Is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance, and thereby exhibits unique ecological features, and might be classified as a climax community.
  6. 14. The development of town or city where a large concentration of people are located within a small area.
  7. 16. an extreme logging method in which resilient natural forests are harvested and replaced with man-made tree plantations that do not replicate the ecosystem services of a healthy forest
  8. 17. the action of surface processes that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
  9. 18. The natural or intentional restocking of existing forests and woodlands (forestation) that have been depleted, usually through deforestation but also after clearcutting.
Down
  1. 2. the practice of intentionally setting a fire to change the assemblage of vegetation and decaying material in a landscape.
  2. 3. A process in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by a combination of human-induced processes acting upon the land.
  3. 5. Natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity, or any non urbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation.
  4. 6. the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and environmental benefits.
  5. 7. The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.
  6. 8. utilizes biological systems, living organisms or parts of this to develop or create different products
  7. 10. The process by which vegetation in drylands i.e. arid and semi-arid lands, such as grasslands or shrublands, decreases and eventually disappears.
  8. 12. A term referring to the countryside instead of a city or town. Small concentration of people over a larger area.
  9. 15. Consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact.