Across
- 5. The chambers in the vault have rows of shelves that hold the packaged ______.
- 7. Dr. Cary Fowler, who was president of the Global Crop Diversity Trust at the time of the vault’s creation, explained that construction plans for such a vault began to come together shortly after several natural disasters ___________global food crops.
- 9. Fowler reports that when visitors tour the seed vault, they get __________.
Down
- 1. can be maintained or ____________if necessary.
- 2. Storage is free at the vault because ___________ the seeds is important.
- 3. The assortment at the vault ensures that food
- 4. This vault was not built to store precious gems or gold bars. It was designed to store something even more valuable and critical to our very survival—
- 6. The seeds are ___________ and stored on shelves.
- 8. It has the __________ to store 4.5 million seed samples.