Geography Terms

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Across
  1. 2. The feature of a place to maintain diverse flora and fauna.
  2. 3. the stocks of companies that mainly operate in food
  3. 6. the large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties.
  4. 8. When a regularly ploughed and harrowed piece of farmland is left alone for period of time without being sown to increase its fertility.
  5. 9. a large area that is characterised or known for its vegetation, soil and climate.
  6. 10. the proportion of light emitted from a surface and the general reflectivity of it.
  7. 12. the concentration of salt in water or soil
  8. 13. Large scale commercial farming
  9. 15. the farming of aquatic creatures
  10. 17. described to be the agricultural practice that suggests rearranging farmlands or turning hills into farmlands by constructing specific ridged platforms
  11. 20. the abiotic factors of a place interacting with the biotic community while they (the biotic community) interact amongst themselves
  12. 21. when different crops are grown in the same area across growing seasons so as to limit the development of weed and pests in the area while also reducing reliance on a single nutrient.
  13. 22. The process of applying controlled amounts of water that will be effective in assisting crops in growth
  14. 23. foods which have been genetically altered to gain a specific characteristic or to lose a characteristic which they may have
  15. 25. The distance of a place North or South of the Equator
  16. 26. the area made up of the parts where the Earth exists including the deepest places of the Earth and even the atmosphere.
  17. 27. disease or a condition particularly specific to an area or a region.
  18. 29. to be relating or derived from living matter
Down
  1. 1. the production of a single crop in a specific area
  2. 4. measures atmospheric pressure.
  3. 5. the weather of a place over a sustained period of time.
  4. 7. physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet dietary needs for a productive and healthy life.
  5. 11. described to be the lack of change in a system where the inputs match the outputs
  6. 14. the feature of something to be consistently maintained over a considerable amount of time.
  7. 16. the radiation emitted by the sun as the name suggests.
  8. 18. The movement or exchange of organic and inorganic matter into the production of matter.
  9. 19. the cycle of water through the Earth-atmosphere system.
  10. 24. Grabbing large-scale land acquisitions that investors or other members of society do to produce a sought after commodity
  11. 28. the lines on a map that join together to indicate which places have the same atmospheric pressure.