APHuG Standards 5.10 Crossword (Pia Rajneesh)

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Across
  1. 3. Key trait of the Green Revolution that can reduce women’s traditional economic roles in agriculture while increasing wage labor opportunities for men
  2. 5. Growing food primarily for family consumption
  3. 9. Efforts to balance agricultural productivity with ecosystem protection
  4. 10. American region where large areas of wetland were drained for sugarcane production, to the detriment of the ecosystem
  5. 12. The phenomenon that has weakened the sustainability of shifting cultivation
  6. 14. A practice in agriculture that, while increasing crop yield, collapsed fishing industries in Central Asia during the Soviet era
  7. 15. A farming method also known as shifting cultivation
Down
  1. 1. "long-term food security depends on protecting the __________ agriculture depends upon"
  2. 2. What happened when evaporating irrigation water left salt deposits in the soil
  3. 4. The process of fertile land becoming desert
  4. 6. Scientist of the Green Revolution
  5. 7. A sustainable agriculture method of planting trees alongside crops
  6. 8. Region in Africa where overgrazing by livestock and expanding cultivation have degraded fragile soils
  7. 11. Place in the Southern Hemisphere where shifting cultivation was practiced
  8. 13. A method used by Philippine rice farmers of cutting steep mountains into stepped fields