Across
- 2. the act or state of eroding
- 4. fuels any combustible organic materal,as oil,coal,or natural gas, derived from the remans of former life
- 5. to divest or clear of forests of trees
- 8. the act or process of decomposing
- 10. land that naturally produces forage plants suitable for grazing
- 12. a black or dark-brown combustible minerl substance consisting of carbonized vegatable matter, used as a fuel
- 13. the process by which a nonsaline soil becomes saline, as by the irragation of land with brackish water
Down
- 1. the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land,raising crops, and feeding
- 2. the act of extinquishing
- 3. an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock
- 5. the process by which an area becomes a desert
- 6. being without moisture;extremely dry;parched land;an arid climate
- 7. land suitable for or used for the cultivation of crops
- 9. the natural enviornmental of an organism
- 11. the artifical application of water to land to assist in the production of crops