APES Chapter 11 Terms

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Across
  1. 4. An iron deficiency
  2. 5. Another word for industrial agriculture
  3. 6. Lacking the balance of nutrients and vitamins
  4. 12. changes in farming technique, technology, and ideas in order to increase yield
  5. 14. Lack of resources
  6. 15. target species of insects and other invertebrates that consume crops
  7. 18. Food from animal tissue
  8. 20. The condition where people do not have adequate access to food.
  9. 21. Consumption of too many calories, unbalanced diet
  10. 22. substances, either natural or synthetic, that kill or control organisms that people consider pests
Down
  1. 1. When food insecurity is so extreme, people die in a short period of time
  2. 2. Using machinery to farm
  3. 3. Food from grain plants
  4. 7. composed of organic matter from plants and animals
  5. 8. Fertilizer produced commercially, normally with the use of fossil fuels. Also known as inorganic fertilizer
  6. 9. The fossil fuel energy and human energy input per calorie of food produced, beyond that which is provided by the sun
  7. 10. Not consuming enough calories
  8. 11. a form of soil degradation that occurs when soil remains under water for prolonged periods, impairs root growth because roots cannot get oxygen
  9. 13. The condition where people have access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious foods
  10. 16. A form of soil degradation that occurs when the small amount of salts in irrigation water becomes highly concentrated on the soil surface through evaporation
  11. 17. Both the mechanization of agriculture and the use of synthetic fertilizers
  12. 19. the average costs of production fall as output increases