Unit 2 Terminology
Across
- 8. containing harmful chemicals or organisms
- 9. to add material that will change the purity or usefulness of a substance
- 12. receives and treats human waste
- 14. machine that removes cotton seed from cotton fiber
- 17. one of a row of houses connected by common side walks
- 20. machine that cuts grain
- 22. organism that lives in or on another organism with no benefit to the host
- 23. not affected by
- 24. infection of the milk-secreting glands of cattle, goats, and other milk-production animals
- 26. widespread starvation
- 27. movement of genes from one cell to another
- 29. natural substance in blood that fights diseases and infections
- 31. source of power for belt-driven machines, as well as for pulling
- 32. any edible material used for animal feed
- 33. plant in which certain nitrogen-fixing bacteria use nitrogen gas from the air and convert it to nitrates that the plant can use as food
- 34. apartment building or unit in which the apartments are individually owned
- 36. less available than needed for optimum growth
- 37. a baking potato variety best adapted for growth in sandy vocanic soils
- 38. plow with a curved bottom that will turn prairie soils
Down
- 1. popular, easy-to-grow, summer flowering plant
- 2. liquid body waste
- 3. mating adults who have characteristics desired in the offspring
- 4. food made by boiling and crushing soybeans and letting it coagulate into curds
- 5. breed of turkey that weighs only 8 to 12 pounds at maturity
- 6. solid body waste
- 7. wire with sharp points used to discourage livestock from touching fences
- 10. popular potato variety of the 1930's
- 11. machine that removes ears of corn from stalks
- 13. machine that milks cows and goats
- 15. water that is free of harmful chemicals and disease causing organisms
- 16. plant or animal offspring from crossing two different species or varieties
- 18. in intense, narrow beam of light that is used to measure nutrient deficiencies in plants from an orbiting satellite
- 19. machine that is used to cut and thresh seed crops such as grain
- 21. a six-legged animal with three body segments
- 25. a can with contents under pressure
- 28. disease of poultry that costs growers nearly $300 million a year
- 30. process in which many countries became self-sufficient in food production
- 35. superior baking potato bred to grow well in the Northeast