Farming and the Environment Crossword
Across
- 5. What has drastically changed the appearance of the countryside all over the world?
- 6. The cultivation of bees for the production of honey.
- 7. What is used to ensure a future supply of paper and other wood products?
- 11. What is another word for seed from various grasses?
- 12. The process of an individual organism growing organically.
- 14. Any plant cultivated by people.
- 15. Something that was produced by reactions involving atomic or molecular changes.
- 16. Any substance that can be metabolized to give energy.
- 18. To adapt something wild to the environment.
- 21. The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
- 22. The process of growth in plants.
- 23. The production of food primarily for consumption by the farmer’s family.
- 25. The action of clearing a wide area of trees.
Down
- 1. IPM or ______ is a way to control insects that damage crops.
- 2. What reduces costs to farmers and helps protect the environment?
- 3. The process of farming water for the production of fish and shellfish.
- 4. Human actions causing land quality to deteriorate.
- 8. The production of food primarily for sale off the farm.
- 9. The natural process in which the topsoil of a field is carried away by physical sources such as wind and water.
- 10. The practice of cultivating the land or raising livestock.
- 13. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
- 17. This is what commercial farming is called.
- 19. A chemical used to kill destructive insects or animals.
- 20. Rotating the use of different fields from crop to crop each year.
- 24. A compound made artificially by chemical reactions.