Agriculture Revolution Vocabulary
Across
- 6. to use
- 10. a layer of gas above the Earth’s surface that protects human beings from harmful rays of the sun
- 12. money used to invest in business
- 13. to feed on growing plants, such as grass
- 15. an economy based on industry, not agriculture
- 16. land held to be used by everyone
- 18. a supply of workers
- 19. to sow seeds by throwing them over a field by hand
Down
- 1. animal droppings used to fertilize land
- 2. an increase in the world’s temperature
- 3. new inventions; the science of industry
- 4. in the language of colonialism, the colonizing power was often referred to as the “mother” country-a sexist reference no longer in use
- 5. world-wide
- 7. unproductive; inadequate in performance
- 8. an act forbidding anyone except members of the Church of England from holding political office or entering the professions
- 9. animal food
- 11. a group of animals distinguished by particular characteristics
- 14. the essential materials needed in an industry to make a product
- 17. a complete change in something; the overthrow of a government