AgScience Midterm Review
Across
- 3. The biology of heredity.
- 4. Mixture of partially decayed organic matter.
- 5. Organism that produces disease.
- 9. Material that supplies nutrients for plants.
- 10. The use of cells to produce products or processes.
- 12. One-celled, microscopic organisms.
- 15. Material placed on soil to prevent erosion and weeds.
- 16. Application of scientific principles to agriculture.
- 17. Surrounding environment in which something functions and thrives.
- 18. Desirable proportions of nutrients and organisms to support plant growth
- 19. Living organism that transmits a disease.
- 21. Person’s occupation or profession.
- 23. Obtain nourishment from either live or decaying organic matter.
Down
- 1. Unit of hereditary material located on a chromosome.
- 2. Growing plants as roots hang in air and are misted with nutrient solution.
- 6. Science of producing, processing, and marketing plant products.
- 7. Pertaining to a particular season of the year.
- 8. Practice of growing plants without soil.
- 11. Natural volcanic glass material with water holding capabilities.
- 13. Raising aquatic animals under controlled conditions.
- 14. Activities concerned with the production of plants and animals.
- 20. Exact duplicate.
- 22. Pathogenic entity consisting of nucleic acid and a protein sheath.