Chapter 15: Food Unit Vocabulary
Across
- 4. chemicals used to kill insects, weeds and other crop pests
- 5. partly decomposed organic material
- 7. raising of aquatic organisms for human use/consumption
- 9. domesticated animals used on a farm/ranch or sold for profit
- 11. accumulation of salts in the soil
- 13. catching/removing of more organisms in a population than is replaced
- 14. the movement of rock, soil and sand by wind and water
- 16. the process by which land in arid or semiarid areas become desertlike.
Down
- 1. examples are cattle, sheep and goats
- 2. animals that are bred and managed for human use
- 3. form of pest management that uses living organisms
- 6. the surface layer of soil which is richer in organic matter than the subsoil.
- 8. widespread starvation caused by a shortage of food.
- 10. condition of when people do not eat enough food to fulfill the body's needs.
- 12. the amount of food that can be produced in a given area
- 15. the type and amount of food a person eats.