Wildfires and Droughts Review

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Across
  1. 3. 72% of water withdrawals
  2. 5. Fire moves ____ on flat terrain
  3. 7. Less than normal precipitation over an extended period of time
  4. 9. Any unwanted fire that burns fields, Grass, brush, and forests
  5. 11. On average, 4,300 ___ burn each year due to wildfires in PA
  6. 14. Droughts have ___ effects
  7. 15. Being depleted
  8. 19. Gasses that trap the Sun's heat in the atmosphere
  9. 20. Replace sprinklers with dry ____
  10. 21. Most common wildfire season
  11. 22. Ratio of water supply and demand
  12. 24. Communities that stay ___ and prepared rebound quicker from drought
Down
  1. 1. Direction the terrain is facing
  2. 2. One of the leading causes of wildfires
  3. 4. Supplies 25% of food eaten in the US
  4. 6. Major cause of Western wildfires
  5. 8. Pennsylvania's transition of vegetation greening ____ in the Fall
  6. 9. 71% of the Earth is covered with this
  7. 10. Lost 56% of glaciers due to climate change
  8. 12. Water rights:First come first serve
  9. 13. ____ hold 70% of Earth's fresh water supply
  10. 16. Fire moves _____ up steep slopes
  11. 17. Pennsylvania's wildfire season is ____ and Fall
  12. 18. Grass, leaves, pine needles, twigs, branches
  13. 23. Clear an area of ___ft. around the barrel for debris burning