Across
- 3. The Sahara is a desert spanning North Africa. It is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall
- 4. mixed woodland-grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced
- 5. a member of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory
- 6. activity or business of growing crops and raising livestock.
- 10. the action of clearing a wide area of trees.
- 11. of or belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent
- 14. (of a waterway or sea) able to be sailed on by ships or boats.
Down
- 1. the watering of land by artificial means to foster plant growth
- 2. excessive grazing which causes damage to grassland.
- 4. relating to or denoting a method of agriculture in which existing vegetation is cut down and burned off
- 7. It is the transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier Sahara to the north.
- 8. a prolonged dry period in the natural climate cycle that can occur anywhere in the world
- 9. the contamination of water sources by substances which make the water unusable
- 12. (of land) used or suitable for growing crops.
- 13. a luxuriant, dense forest rich in biodiversity, found typically in tropical areas with consistently heavy rainfall.
- 15. very dry. especially : not having enough rainfall to support agriculture.
