Unit 9 Vocab Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. Area Geographic area that is located outside towns and cities
  2. 5. Disordered or haphazard mess
  3. 7. Bloom Rapid growth of algae
  4. 8. Fuel Natural fuel like coal
  5. 11. Containing salt
  6. 12. Rotation Growing a series of different types of crops in the same area across a sequence of growing seasons
  7. 13. Farming Farming practice that involves tilling sloped land along lines of consistent elevation
  8. 15. Pollution The presence into the air of a substance which has harmful effects
  9. 16. Agriculture System of farming to produce food and livestock without harming the environment
  10. 19. Hole A region of marked thinning of the ozone layer
  11. 20. Something that can cause the risk of a brith defect in a baby
  12. 21. Crop A crop grown for the protection and enrichment of the soil
  13. 22. Preparing land for raising crops by plowing and harrowing
  14. 23. The activity of growing one crop among others of a different kind
Down
  1. 1. Island Urbanized area that experiences higher temperature than outlying areas
  2. 2. The process of making an area more urban
  3. 4. use Use of human land
  4. 5. degradation Loss of the physical,chemical and/or biological qualities of soil
  5. 6. cover Water quality, Watershed hydrology, habitat and species composition, climate, and carbon storage
  6. 9. Make or form into a number of level flat areas resembling a series of steps
  7. 10. The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society
  8. 14. Area A human settlement with a large population
  9. 17. Naturally occurring radioactive gas
  10. 18. A poison that attacks the nervous system
  11. 19. Excessive grazing which causes damage to grassland