Unit 6.1 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 6. To check or hinder the growth or development of a plant
  2. 8. Yellowing or whitening of normally green leaves caused by lack of nutrients, air pollution or diseases
  3. 11. crops such as legumes or grasses that are grown to be plowed or spaded into the soil to increase humus content and improve soil structure
  4. 12. Zn; assist with photosynthetic function, helps metabolic enzymes, and effects cell development
  5. 15. B; an element essential for plant growth. Helps plant cells develop and assists with sugar translocation
  6. 16. Cl; a heavy gas used in small amounts for the growth of plants
  7. 17. Mn; an element that is often unavailable to plants
  8. 18. K; macronutrient involved with photosynthesis primarily with the transformation of sugars
  9. 19. When molecular nitrogen biologically or chemically converts to organic combinations or forms
  10. 20. Trace nutrients
  11. 26. N; macronutrient, vital to plant growing process, increases vegetative growth
  12. 27. Primary plant nutrients
  13. 28. produced by plants and animals with nothing "additional" added
  14. 29. A change in color of the lower leaves of green plants usually attributed to a lack of plant nutrients or moisture deficiency
  15. 30. Organic residues or their mixture placed in a pit, moistened and allowed to become decomposed
Down
  1. 1. P; this nutrient stimulates early growth and root development
  2. 2. an element or compound in a soil that is essential for the growth of a plant
  3. 3. another name for micronutrient
  4. 4. Essential to plant growth in smaller quantities or another name for micronutrient
  5. 5. Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium or another name for macronutrient
  6. 7. Excreta of animals used to fertilize land
  7. 9. Mg; essential for plant growth because it is a constituent of chlorophyll
  8. 10. Any organic or inorganic material added to soil or water to provide plant nutrients to increase growth
  9. 13. A family of plants that includes food and forages like peas, beans, peanuts, clovers, alfalfas and kudzu
  10. 14. An insufficiency in reference to the amount, volume, proportion
  11. 21. Death of plants
  12. 22. Fe; a deficiency in this element results in chlorosis
  13. 23. Cu; can reduce plant uptake of phosphorus, iron, zinc, and molybdenum. Assists with photosynthetic function and metabolic enzyme breakdown
  14. 24. S; element important for soil fertility and used in large amounts by plants
  15. 25. Ca; essential in plant and animal growth & is the principal mineral element in bones
  16. 27. Mo; essential in very small amounts, usually sufficient