Increasing agriculture crossword
Across
- 4. A plant growing in an innapropiate place.
- 5. A chemical used to control pests but also less accurately used as a colective term to descrive pest and disease killing chemicals.
- 7. An animal that attacks or feeds on a plant.
- 9. A colective name to describe disease-causing organisms.
- 11. The movement of the water up plants and its subsequent loss as water vapor from their leaves.
- 13. A chemical or natural substance added to soil or land to increase its fertility.
- 15. Not consisting or deriving from living matter.
- 16. A chemical that kills insects.
- 18. The avility of a living organism to survive one exposed to a toxic chemical.
- 19. A chemical used to control fungal diseases.
- 20. A natural or artificial layer on the soil surface used to reduce water evaporation and weed grow.
Down
- 1. A chemical used to control weeds.
- 2. The process by which fertil land becomes desert.
- 3. The introduction of machines or automatic devices into a process, activity or place.
- 6. Derive from living organisms.
- 8. A sequence of BNA that is responsable for a characteristic of a living organism.
- 10. Plant that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their roots to produce a source of nitrates.
- 12. The supply of water to a crop by the grower.
- 14. A pathogen that attacks a plant.
- 17. A building made of glass or similar transparent material that is used to manage the environment for plant growth.