Pest Control
Across
- 1. Organisms that reduce the productivity of crops by reducing the amount of energy available for growth.
- 4. Can use these along with natural predators to keep numbers of pests low.
- 6. Increasing concentration of a pesticide or other chemical as it is passed along a food chain.
- 7. Substance that kills weeds that compete with agricultural crops for energy.
- 8. Substance used to kill unwanted organisms.
- 9. Substance that kills fungal infections that damage agricultural crops.
Down
- 2. Means they only kill on pest species.
- 3. May produce strains of the pest that are resistant to a pesticide.
- 5. Substance that kills insect pests that eat and damage crops.
- 6. Means they kill many different species.