Geography Glossary

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Across
  1. 5. ability of something to maintain itself over time.
  2. 6. The continuous circulation of water within the Earth's hydrosphere, and is driven by solar radiation.
  3. 10. General term for the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sun.
  4. 11. A large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra.
  5. 14. The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
  6. 15. produced or involving production without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial chemicals.
  7. 16. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
  8. 17. An agricultural practice that suggests rearranging farmlands or turning hills into farmlands by constructing specific ridged platforms
  9. 18. Salt levels
  10. 20. a state of balance between continuing processes.
  11. 23. Ploughed and harrowed but left for a period without being sown in order to restore its fertility or to avoid surplus production.
  12. 24. Foods derived from organisms whose genetic material (DNA) has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally
  13. 26. The cultivation of a single crop in a given area.
  14. 27. Zone of life on Earth
  15. 28. 100x multiple of the Pascal which is the SI unit for pressure.
  16. 29. a disease or condition regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
Down
  1. 1. A line on a map connecting points having the same atmospheric pressure at a given time or on average over a given period.
  2. 2. or involving production without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial chemicals.
  3. 3. flow The movement of nutrients from one location to another
  4. 4. all people , at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet dietary needs for a productive and healthy life.
  5. 7. Agriculture conducted on strictly commercial principles.
  6. 8. The measurement of distance north or south of the Equator.
  7. 9. Farming of aquatic organisms
  8. 12. The supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.
  9. 13. stocksBone broth?
  10. 19. Large-scale land acquisitions.
  11. 21. the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area across a sequence of growing seasons.
  12. 22. a range of living organisms in an ecosystem
  13. 25. Measure of the diffuse reflection of solar radiation