APES Snow Puzzle: Food & Agriculture
Across
- 3. Middle sized soil particle
- 5. Place that is challenging to get affordable or fresh produce
- 8. Organisms needed to help plants reproduce
- 12. Smallest soil particle
- 13. One way farmers stay in business even though they operate at a loss
- 14. Crop that cows did NOT evolve to eat
- 16. Element in fertilizer found in nucleic acids and cell membranes
- 19. Best soil, good mixture of all 3 soil particles
- 21. Factory farm (abbr)
- 22. What Haitian children eat to stay alive
- 24. Why soooooo many people are starving despite world’s overabundance of food
- 26. Rate at which air and water particles move down through the soil
- 27. Chemical that kills plants
Down
- 1. Conversion of light energy to chemical energy done by photoautotrophs
- 2. Nasty chemical in round-up
- 4. Movement of water from above ground and into the soil
- 6. General term for plant foods in the soil
- 7. Effect of anthropogenic overuse of fertilizers
- 9. Largest soil particle
- 10. Place where an urban community garden may be found
- 11. Unexpected cost incurred by an innocent third party
- 15. Economist who realized the human population would grow faster than the food supply
- 17. The volume of air spaces in the soil
- 18. Element in fertilizer found in proteins and nucleic acids
- 20. Plant engineered to produce its own toxin
- 23. Chemical that kills pests
- 25. The charge of typical soil