Desertification

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Across
  1. 3. Time in which soil rests and regenerates nutrients
  2. 5. cultivation of crops
  3. 8. continent on which desertification does not occur
  4. 12. Regarding environmental degradation, known as the “tipping point” with irreversible effects and steady decline towards ecological extinction
  5. 14. dry climate
  6. 15. salt deposition and accumulation left by evaporated water
Down
  1. 1. the maximum population of a species an environment can sustain indefinitely
  2. 2. desert that spans southern Mongolia and Northern China
  3. 4. process of land degradation
  4. 6. desert in Africa
  5. 7. method of watering large-scale agriculture
  6. 9. the process gradual weathering by wind or water
  7. 10. excessive exposure of vegetation to livestock activity causing damage to environment
  8. 11. extended periods in which regions receive little to no rainfall
  9. 13. exploitation and destruction of wooded resource