Across
- 3. wearing down of the environment
- 5. former president of Brazil who was known for supporting the agricultural sector of the country and wanted to clear the Amazon forest for cattle and soybeans, particularly areas that had been protected
- 6. Forced labor, not free to make choices or leave
- 7. amount produced in a country in a year
- 11. located in Africa’s Sahel region, the goal is to transform the dry land to fertile land by planting trees across the entire width of Africa
- 12. used to grow crops such as cotton causing environmental and health problems
- 14. due to global warming, people’s homes are lives are at stake as increased flooding is occurring, especially in coastal and island locations
- 15. wiping out a group of people based on their race, ethnicity, or religion
- 18. working conditions and wages are a concern for companies who operate under these rules
- 19. wiping out an ethnic group
- 20. tribes such as the Uru Eu Wau Wau are being forced out of their land because farmers want to clear their land
- 22. garments are produced extremely fast, several seasons a year, to the point where clothes are so cheap to purchase, people discard them after wearing them a few times
- 23. trees that produced the raw material needed to make tires
- 24. when kids as young as 10 are working in fields or factories in order to make money for their family’s survival
Down
- 1. land that had been marked for protection in the Amazon
- 2. temperatures are increasing as a result of climate change
- 3. clearing of trees causing the size of the forest to decrease in size
- 4. grown to sell for profit such as coffee or chocolate
- 8. impact of the use of factories, pesticides, chemicals, CO2 emissions, etc
- 9. crop grown in Africa on plantations, the majority of the money is made not by the farmers but by the producers who purchase the crop
- 10. farming of this animal requires a lot of space, therefore deforestation occurs
- 13. occurs as the result of human activity such as pollution from factories and clearing of forests
- 16. gets released into the atmosphere when trees are cut down, causing global warming to continue to worsen
- 17. oil, trees, rubber, etc
- 21. people who buy products, such as fast fashion
