Chapter 12 Soil & Agriculture
Across
- 2. when too many animals eat too much of the plant cover
- 3. physical and chemical process that breaks down rocks and minerals
- 4. providing water other than precipitation to crops
- 6. reduces productivity of arid lands
- 10. transforms steep slopes into a series of steps like a staircase
- 12. chemicals that kill organisms that attack or compete with plants
- 15. farmers alternate crops grown in a field
- 16. the turning over of soil before planting
Down
- 1. the build up of salt in upper soil horizons
- 5. medium size particles of soil
- 7. deterioration of the soil
- 8. continuous mass of solid rock
- 9. plant supporting system made up of organic and inorganic materials
- 11. a cross-section of all the soil horizons
- 13. smallest particles of soil
- 14. largest particle of soil