Across
- 3. growing or living in the water
- 6. protection
- 8. loss of soil from action of water or wind
- 12. relating/living to the land
- 13. area)
- 14. to prevent, slow down
- 17. to reach past, get bigger
- 18. the natural environment in which a plant or animal lives
- 19. to cut down
- 20. A large group of people or things, a collection
- 21. damage to the land, air, and water from harmful materials
Down
- 1. to keep from changing, maintain
- 2. the cutting down of trees for commercial purposes
- 4. to catch or block
- 5. Destruction of forests (the removal of all trees from a
- 7. the natural world
- 9. food
- 10. many, numerous
- 11. to disappear
- 15. a strong effect
- 16. plant life/plants
