5.2 Soil Systems and Terrestrial Food Production
Across
- 2. The business of food production including farming, seed supply, breeding, chemicals for agriculture, food harvesting, distribution, processing and storage.
- 4. The word which describes areas where only one type of crop is grown. Begins with an M.
- 5. LEDC. 4 words.
- 7. Two words. Large scale production of crops for livestock.
- 8. A factor that affects what is grown and what is eaten. E.g. the desire for ice-cream in America.
- 9. Given to animals to prevent disease. Become very necessary in battery farms where animals are close together.
- 12. To make food production more viable in the long-term, we need to make it more .................... Meaning that it can last and be repeatable over the coming decades.
- 14. Local ecological conditions that determine what can be grown.
- 15. If humans decreased their consumption of this, far less land would have to be used for agriculture and less carbon dioxide and methane would be produced.
- 18. GMOs. 3 words.
- 19. Two words. A factor affecting what is grown. To do with market forces.
- 22. Farming is called this when it is large-scale and done for profit.
- 23. A factor affecting what is grown. E.g. by tariffs being placed on foods.
Down
- 1. Two words. Farming for self-sufficiency to grow enough for a family.
- 3. MEDC. 4 words.
- 6. Two words. Process of taking livestock from wild animals to those that can be farmed.
- 10. Calorie consumption on earth does not have an even ................ There are countries where people consume far more calories per day than others.
- 11. Two words. Growing crops for market, not for yourself.
- 13. Farming that has both animals and crops and is a system in itself where animal waste is used as a fertiliser.
- 16. The growing of crops on good soil for eating directly or feeding to animals.
- 17. The raising of animals, usually on the grass, and on land that it is not suitable for crops. E.g. goats.
- 20. Two words. When plants are grown in alternate fashion. Every fourth year a leguminous plant might be grown.
- 21. The removal of biomass, nutrients, minerals and water from a a system. Often done one yearly. Begins with a H.