Unit 2 Vocabulary
Across
- 3. Selecting the strongest plants of each generation to parent the next generation.
- 8. Adding material that will change the purity or usefulness of a substance.
- 10. System Receives and treats human waste.
- 12. Containing harmful chemicals or organisms.
- 13. Machine that is used to cut and thresh seed crops such as grain.
- 14. Widespread starvation.
- 15. Food made by boiling and crushing soybeans and letting it coagulate into curds.
- 17. Plow with a curved bottom that will turn prairie soils.
- 19. Plant or animal offspring from crossing two different species or varieties.
- 21. Organism that lives in or on other organisms with no benefit to the hosts.
- 22. Machine that milks cows and goats.
- 23. Superior baking potato bred to grow well in the Northeast.
- 25. Devices used to determine wavelengths given off by plants.
Down
- 1. Plant in which certain nitrogen-fixing bacteria utilize nitrogen gas from the air and convert it to nitrates that the plant can use as food.
- 2. Apartment building or unit in which the apartments are individually owned.
- 4. Machine that removes ears of corn from stalks.
- 5. Physically putting certain genes into the cells of a plant or animal.
- 6. Natural substances in blood that fight diseases and infections.
- 7. Machine that removes cotton seed from cotton fiber.
- 9. Any edible material used for animal feed.
- 11. Process in which many countries became self-sufficient in food production.
- 15. One of a row of houses connected by common side walls.
- 16. Popular potato variety of the 1930s.
- 18. Machine that cuts grain.
- 20. Source of power for belt-driven machines as well as for pulling.
- 24. Potato grown in volcanic soils of Idaho and the Northwest; greater resistance to disease and insects results in greater yields.