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Biosphere 3 Environmental Management

Patrick Dowling

Skim through pages 217-237 and find words to complete the puzzle. Then with reference to the Geography textbook write sentences to put all the words in broader context.

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4.Such crops can deplete the soil of nutrients. p227
6.These people often suffer in deforestation conflicts. p223
9.If you do this to crops you can replenish nutrients. p232
11.These are mostly of conifers p224
12.Trading of these has been tried (not very successfully) to save forests. p226
13.More of this comes from conserved rather than cleared rainforests. p225.
18.This shape is used to represent a country's population distribution. p237
19....of rainforest comes from logging, cultivation, ranching, mining and dams. p221
20.When badly done this greatly accelerates erosion. p227
22.This kind of development threatens forests. p220
23....of deforestation are political, economic and social. p223
24....such as fertilizer can make poor farmers poorer. p227
25.These forests can be confused with tropical ones but have no base buttresses. p217
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1.Exemplified in the Sahel this is an extreme form of erosion with a combination of causes including salinization and fuel wood gathering. p229.
2.This type of drought resistant tree dominates the savanna. p 218
3.Indonesia has a natural increase of 1,3% per annum in this. p222
5.... the soil is a basic rule of conservation. p231
7.This 4-stage transition model predicts how a country's population might change as it develops. p236
8.Die-back of this plant adds organic matter to the soil. p219
10.... of land is a contentious economic issue linked to soil management. p232
14.This rate is low in more developed countries. p233
15.These plants can help with land regeneration. p230
16.This and contour ploughing can help with soil conservation p231
17.100,000 sq km of rainforest does this every year. p220
21....- care has improved around the world leading to lower death rates. p234

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