Unit 7: Other Land Use Part 1
Across
- 2. fire that only burns underbrush and is beneficial to the forest
- 7. fire that smolders underground and is hard to put out
- 8. depletion or degradation of shared/public resources for personal gain
- 9. for all projects receiving federal money or permits an environmental assessment must be conducted
- 10. strategies that develop sustainable communitites
- 12. when cities physically and socially fall apart as a result of more people migrating to the suburbs
- 15. Large expanses of undeveloped land covered mostly with grasses or brush suitable for grazing livestock but too dry to farm
- 16. federal agency in charge of recreation and conservation of wildlife/habitat
Down
- 1. federal agency in charge of grazing, mining, some forestry and recreation
- 2. growth forest resulting from natural secondary succession
- 3. fire that spreads rapidly in underbrush and treetops making it the most damaging
- 4. growth forest that has not been seriously disturbed in years
- 5. when urban areas expand outward into rural surroundings
- 6. land degradation severe enough that land becomes a desert
- 11. parks and large areas of forest left in and around developments
- 13. federal agency in charge of forestry, grazing and recreation
- 14. cities create a microclimate, making them warmer than rural areas