Chapter 12 Vocab
Across
- 1. industrial farming to provide a profit
- 3. changing the genes of a crops
- 7. using living organisms to limit pests
- 8. banned pesticides
- 10. an amount of cattle
- 11. the variety of animals, plants, and microorganims
- 12. a way of farming for cash crops
- 13. cultivating only one crop at a time
- 15. widespread hunger
- 16. farming to feed one's self and family
- 22. the confidence in having food
- 24. a natural fertilizer
- 25. an organism that has been genetically changed
- 28. sustaining the soil
- 32. a chemically made fertilizer
- 34. growing plants in water
- 36. a system to water crops
- 37. an insect that destroys plants
- 38. a chemically derived product to help plants grow
- 39. where fish are raised
- 40. an excess of nutrition
- 41. toxic original kinds of pesticides
Down
- 2. farming without pesticides and synthetic fertilizers
- 4. a chemically derived product to limit pests and insects
- 5. the amount of product after a harvest
- 6. the process of a place becoming a desert
- 9. cultivating multiple crops at once
- 14. an excess amount of water in a tree's roots
- 17. large scale farming
- 18. the gradual deterioration of soil
- 19. government supplied to farm
- 20. a condition in which an unhealthy amount of nutrition is consumed
- 21. the practice of sustainable places of water
- 23. an area where people lack access to high quality foods
- 26. changing the crops planted
- 27. the process of soil becoming more salty
- 29. using genetically modified seeds
- 30. a period of rapid growth that showed larger crop yields
- 31. a chemically made pesticide
- 33. a lack of nutrition
- 35. dealing with pests