Ag Vocab Midterm

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Across
  1. 2. (of an area of land) covered with trees
  2. 8. Agricultural and Forestal Districts
  3. 9. relating to herbs (in the botanical sense).
  4. 10. any plant with leaves, seeds, or flowers used for flavoring, food, medicine, or perfume
  5. 14. shovel square-bladed shovel is used for lifting and moving loose material
  6. 15. rapid upward growth of a plant
  7. 16. (especially of plants or a disease) tending to spread prolifically and undesirably or harmfully
  8. 20. the upper layer of earth in which plants grow a black or dark brown material Soil texture
  9. 21. an area or stretch of land having a particular characteristic, purpose, or use, or subject to particular restrictions
  10. 23. the transfer of pollen to a stigma, ovule, flower, or plant to allow fertilization
  11. 26. Introduce air into a material
  12. 27. a small handheld tool with a flat, pointed blade, used to apply and spread mortar or plaster
  13. 29. trim (a tree, shrub, or bush) by cutting away dead or overgrown branches or stems, especially to increase fruitfulness and growth
  14. 31. spade all-purpose tool with a medium-size rounded blade with a pointed tip
  15. 36. a figure expressing the acidity or alkalinity of a solution on a logarithmic scale on which 7 is neutral
  16. 37. pruners Pruning shears, also called hand pruners (in American English), or secateurs (in British English
  17. 38. fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment,
  18. 42. An expert in garden
  19. 44. any material added to the soil to improve its physical or chemical properties.
  20. 46. the development of a plant from a seed or spore after a period of dormancy
  21. 47. occurs twice a year.
  22. 49. a tree surgeon.
  23. 50. a farm tool with a long handle and sharp metal prongs, used especially for lifting hay
  24. 51. (of a tree or shrub) shedding its leaves annually.
Down
  1. 1. make or become hard or harder
  2. 3. growing and marketing plants and with the associated activities of flower arrangement and landscape design.
  3. 4. process of pruning by which old growth and seed heads are removed from the plant to promote new growth and re-flowering.
  4. 5. low-growing, spreading plants that help to stop weeds from growing
  5. 6. relating to or denoting a plant that retains green leaves throughout the year.
  6. 7. the organic component of soil
  7. 11. a stiff, sticky fine-grained earth, typically yellow, red, or bluish gray in color and often forming an impermeable
  8. 12. a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there
  9. 13. any plant cultivar that has been grown for a certain number of years and that breeds “true to type” from seeds, with each generation of the plant having the same combination of traits.
  10. 17. plant or tree removed from one location and reset in the ground at another.
  11. 18. decayed organic material used as a plant fertilizer.
  12. 19. any plant that completes its life cycle in a single growing season
  13. 20. vigorous vertical growth coming from the roots or lower main stem of a plant
  14. 22. locking up your assets in exchange for rewards or interes
  15. 24. a fertile soil of clay and sand containing humus.
  16. 25. the action of driving metal pins into rock faces so that ropes can be attached to them.
  17. 28. enclosing tiny particles of a substance inside another material
  18. 30. a loose granular substance, typically pale yellowish brown
  19. 32. becoming less dense, crowded, or numerous
  20. 33. when you plant seeds directly out into prepared garden beds.
  21. 34. the cultivation of crop species that live longer than two years without the need for replanting each year.
  22. 35. a small cart with a single wheel at the front and two supporting legs and two handles at the rear
  23. 39. the action or process of draining something
  24. 40. House heated building, typically made largely of glass
  25. 41. a plant of a genus that includes cabbage, turnip, Brussels sprout, and mustard.
  26. 43. relating to or derived from living matter
  27. 45. frame a four-sided frame of boards with a removable glass or plastic top.
  28. 48. the offspring of two plants or animals of different species or varieties, such as a mule