Soil
Across
- 3. produced or involving production without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial chemicals.
- 7. a living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.
- 9. he sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food.
- 10. fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbour.
- 11. a stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics.
Down
- 1. a fertile soil of clay and sand containing humus.
- 2. a colourless, transparent, odourless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.
- 4. decayed organic material is used as a fertilizer for growing plants.
- 5. existing in or derived from nature; not made or caused by humankind.
- 6. a loose granular substance, typically pale yellowish brown, resulting from the erosion of siliceous and other rocks and forming a major constituent of beaches, river beds, the seabed, and deserts.
- 8. material (such as decaying leaves, bark, or compost) spread around or over a plant to enrich or insulate the soil.