Across
- 3. The process or industry of obtaining coal or other minerals from a mine.
- 5. can cause habitat loss and soil degradation; can also affect ecosystems by contributing to ground water and surface water contamination
- 6. the practice in which forests are logged or cleared for human use and never replanted
- 7. the ability of an ecosystem to sustain ecological processes
- 8. the ways we use the land around us for urban development, agriculture, industry, mining, and forestry
- 10. when soil particles are squeezed together and the air spaces between the particles are reduced
- 13. the division of habitats into smaller, isolated fragments
- 14. the use or extraction of a resource until it is depleted
- 15. the introduction of chemicals, toxins, wastes, or micro-organisms into the environment in concentrations that are harmful to living things
Down
- 1. Provide (an area) with new plants or trees.
- 2. has resulted in the destruction or fragmentation of habitats
- 4. reflects human experience with nature gained over centuries
- 9. the dying out of a species
- 11. when water and wind erosion removes topsoil from bare land
- 12. the destruction of habitats, which usually results from human activities