enviromental crosword

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Across
  1. 3. land-land used for harvesting wood, wildlife, fish, nuts, and other resources
  2. 5. services-resources produced by natural and artificial ecosystems
  3. 7. cutting-process of removing all of the trees from an area of land
  4. 9. land-land that is poorly suited for building
  5. 10. used to graze livestock and wildlife
  6. 12. sprawl- rapid expansion of a city into the countryside
  7. 13. forest-forest consisting of entirely native trees and plants
  8. 15. cutting-process of cutting and removing only middle aged or mature trees
  9. 17. movement of people from rural areas to cities
  10. 18. rangelands improvement act-leases rangeland to ranchers to improve land management
  11. 20. space-land within urban areas that is set aside for scenic and recreational enjoyment
  12. 21. land-land that is mostly covered with buildings and roads
  13. 24. of trees from an area without replacing them
Down
  1. 1. transit systems-buses, trains, etc. to move many people at one time
  2. 2. used to grow plants for food and fiber
  3. 4. urban crisis-when urban areas grow rapidly and overwhelm the infrastructure can lead to traffic jams
  4. 6. more animals to graze in an area than the range can support
  5. 8. planning- where houses,businesses, and factories will be built, where land will be protected for recreation, that is determined in advance
  6. 11. of the things that society build for public use like roads or sewers
  7. 14. used to grow crops
  8. 16. land-land that contains relatively few people and large areas of open space
  9. 19. forest-forest that has never been cut
  10. 22. and reserves-land used for recreation and scenic enjoyment and for preserving native animal and plant communities and ecosystems
  11. 23. farm-areas where trees are planted in rows and harvested like other crops