Across
- 3. the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
- 5. The concept of using natural resources at a rate that does not deplete them is called.
- 7. The destruction of habitats that usually results from human activities.
- 9. An underground formation that contains groundwater.
- 13. the action of clearing a wide area of trees.
- 14. species that enter new ecosystems and multiply, harming native species and their habitats.
- 15. An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes).
Down
- 1. Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment.
- 2. farming strategy in which large fields are planted with a single crop, year after year.
- 4. Rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combine with water.
- 6. Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away (i.e. weathering, glaciation).
- 8. Raising marine and freshwater fish in ponds and underwater cages.
- 10. the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
- 11. Species that normally live and thrive in a particular ecosystem.
- 12. The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future.
