Food Tech Indigenous

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Across
  1. 3. - Sacred indigenous animal and staple meat source
  2. 8. – Plant used as bush medicine by indigenous
  3. 9. Grub – Large, white, wood-eating insect/ food
  4. 11. - Australian freshwater crustacean
  5. 12. – Hemiparasitic plant, berry
  6. 14. – Insects which carry food to the point their abdomens swell enormously
  7. 17. – Also known as cyerus, wetland ‘grass- like plant’
  8. 18. – Known as mountain pepper, in woodlands
  9. 21. trap – Vast network of weirs, dams and canals to manipulate ‘water snake’ through it
  10. 22. – Nut, native to Australia
  11. 26. Plum – Flowering plant native to Australia
  12. 27. - What did the indigenous use to burn vegetation?
  13. 28. – Wooden spear, throwing device
  14. 29. – settler or inhabitant
  15. 31. stick – Stick made for digging
  16. 32. – Also called bushfood, native food used as substance by aboriginal
Down
  1. 1. – Long-established belief or repeated thing
  2. 2. – Traditional Australian bread known as ‘soda bread’
  3. 4. – Essential nutrients for human body
  4. 5. – Traditional aboriginal edible seed
  5. 6. – Known in some regions as first people
  6. 7. – Prolonged shortage in water supply
  7. 10. - Common name for plant form edible tubers (like a potato)
  8. 13. – Habitat destruction
  9. 15. – Mechanical agricultural preparation of soil
  10. 16. – Stingless bee, native to the coast of Australia
  11. 19. – Regrowth after loss or damage
  12. 20. – Traditional Australian carrying vessel, woman used to carry water, fruit, nuts etc.
  13. 23. – Searching for wild food resources
  14. 24. – Plants used to make medicine
  15. 25. – Also known as thorn tree, belongs to pea family called Fabaceae. Native to Australia.
  16. 30. – Tough tissue, tendon or ligament