Across
- 1. The science or practice of cultivating soil or raising livestock for the purpose of economic or humanitarian benefit
- 4. The deliberate and purposeful removal of forestry for the use of resources.
- 9. The shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change
- 11. A forest or woodland area that has regenerated through largely natural processes after human-caused disturbances, such as timber harvest or agriculture clearing, or equivalently disruptive natural phenomenon.
- 13. Is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance, and thereby exhibits unique ecological features, and might be classified as a climax community.
- 14. The development of town or city where a large concentration of people are located within a small area.
- 16. an extreme logging method in which resilient natural forests are harvested and replaced with man-made tree plantations that do not replicate the ecosystem services of a healthy forest
- 17. the action of surface processes that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
- 18. The natural or intentional restocking of existing forests and woodlands (forestation) that have been depleted, usually through deforestation but also after clearcutting.
Down
- 2. the practice of intentionally setting a fire to change the assemblage of vegetation and decaying material in a landscape.
- 3. A process in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by a combination of human-induced processes acting upon the land.
- 5. Natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity, or any non urbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation.
- 6. the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and environmental benefits.
- 7. The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.
- 8. utilizes biological systems, living organisms or parts of this to develop or create different products
- 10. The process by which vegetation in drylands i.e. arid and semi-arid lands, such as grasslands or shrublands, decreases and eventually disappears.
- 12. A term referring to the countryside instead of a city or town. Small concentration of people over a larger area.
- 15. Consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact.