Food and Agriculture
Across
- 3. Land that can be used to grow crops
- 4. Solid rock layer
- 8. Location of the famine that occurred in 1984
- 10. Made from a fungus (Fusarium venenatum) and is mixed with eggs and flavor and grown in fermentation vats
- 11. Larger rock particles with organic matter
- 13. Soil that can support the growth of healthy plants
- 14. Vitamin C deficiency
- 15. Condition that occurs when people do not consume enough calories or eat a sufficient variety to fulfill all of the body’s nee
- 17. Widespread starvation caused by a shortage of food
- 21. Foods produced from unconventional sources
- 24. All nutrient deficiency
- 25. A nutrient, main function is building and maintaining body structures
- 27. Accumulation of salts in the soil
- 28. American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the Green Revolution
- 30. Dissolved or suspended materials moving downward
Down
- 1. Fallen leaves and partially decomposed organic matter
- 2. Man-made food made to substitute for some other type of food
- 5. A nutrient, main function is for energy
- 6. Where plant roots grow, rich in organic matter, living things, rock particles, water, air
- 7. Wearing away of rock or soil by wind and water
- 9. Land in arid areas become form desert-like because of human activity or climatic changes
- 12. A diet low in Vitamin B1 (thiamine)
- 16. A nutrient, main function is for cell membranes and hormones
- 17. Foods that have nutrients added to them to improve quality
- 18. The amount of energy available in the food we eat
- 19. Amino acid deficiency
- 20. Type and amount of food that a person eats
- 22. Rock undergone weathering
- 23. Man-made food made to substitute for some other type of food
- 26. Salad green that may become an important food source because it can grow in salty soil
- 29. Iodine deficiency