APES Snow Puzzle: Food & Agriculture

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