Across
- 4. Is the divisions of habitats into smaller, isolated fragments.
- 6. Is the process or industry of finding coal or other minerals from digging underground into a mine.
- 7. Is the practice of forests that are logged or cleared for human use and never replanted.
- 8. Is the use or extraction of a resource until it is depleted.
- 9. Planting a tree or plant that has been dug up a second time by transferring it to larger pot or site.
- 10. Is the ways we use the land around us for urban development, agriculture, industry, mining, and forestry.
- 11. Happens when soil particles are squeezed together and the air spaces between the particles are reduced.
- 12. Is the ways we obtain and use materials, such as soil, wood, water, gas, oil, and minerals.
- 13. Is the spreading outwards of a city and it’s suburbs.
- 14. Could occur when water and wind erosion removes topsoil from bare land.
- 15. Is the dying out of a species.
Down
- 1. The ability of an ecosystem to sustain biological processes.
- 2. Is the introduction of chemicals, toxins, wastes, or micro-organisms into the environment that are harmful to nature and living things.
- 3. Is the destructions of habitats that happens from human activities.
- 5. Is the understanding of the plants, animals, and natural occurrences in the forest’s environment that the First Nation’s used.