Biomes-Louis

2. The process of changing a piece of sloped land into a series of step-like formation to enable farming
6. A crop produced for its commercial value,rather than human consumption
8. An individual animal,plant,or single-celled life form
9. Refers to the warming of the atmosphere as a result of increase in CO2
11. The presence of salt on the land's surface
12. The arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area
14. A natural feature of the earth's surface
15. Refers to the distance of a place north or south of the Equator

1. Refers to living organisms such as plants and animals
3. Refers to non living features on Earth such as water,light,air and soil.
4. Refers to populations of two or more species within the same area
5. The beginning in the 1940's when new agricultural techniques brought great increases in food production
7. This is about the lack of available water resources to meet demand
10. Refers to new ideas, methods or processes in farming
13. Regions of the world characterized by their climate and their dominant forms of plant and animal life