Chapter 15: Food Unit Vocabulary

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