Across
- 1. National intracurricular organization for students enrolled in agriscience programs.
- 6. Mixing of air into water or soil.
- 8. Practice of growing plants without soil.
- 9. Material placed on soil to prevent erosion and weeds.
- 11. Desirable proportions of nutrients and organisms to support plant growth
- 13. Surrounding environment in which something functions and thrives.
- 15. Application of scientific principles to agriculture.
- 16. Diseases that can be spread by contact.
- 18. Commercial firms that have developed with or stem from agriculture.
- 19. pH of more than 7.0.
- 22. Science of producing, processing, and marketing plant products.
- 23. Large land area from which water flows, is absorbed, drained, and released.
- 26. Weather conditions of a specific region.
- 27. The use of cells to produce products or processes.
- 29. Diseases that cannot be spread to other animals.
- 31. Material that supplies nutrients for plants.
- 34. All the conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding an organism.
- 36. Neither acidic or alkaline.
- 39. Addition of water to plants to supplement rain and or snow.
- 41. Plant that lives frim year to year.
- 42. Plant with a life cycle that is completed in one growing season.
- 43. Drinkable water free of harmful chemicals and organisms.
- 44. The biology of heredity.
- 46. Mixture of partially decayed organic matter.
- 47. Tree that has rootstock limiting growth to under 15 feet.
- 48. Unit of hereditary material located on a chromosome.
- 49. Tree that has rootstock limiting growth to under 10 feet.
Down
- 2. Water-bearing rock formation.
- 3. Series of activities related to a single objective or enterprise.
- 4. Fruit grower or scientist.
- 5. Raising aquatic animals under controlled conditions.
- 7. Living organism that transmits a disease.
- 10. Granular soil containing good balance of sand, silt, and clay.
- 12. Plant that takes two growing seasons from seed to complete life cycle.
- 14. Material that destroys infective agents such as bacteria and viruses.
- 17. One who studies the cultivation of vegetables.
- 20. Activities concerned with the production of plants and animals.
- 21. Growing plants as roots hang in air and are misted with nutrient solution.
- 24. pH of less than 7.0.
- 25. Plant with its seeds enclosed in a pod or seed case.
- 28. Pertaining to a particular season of the year.
- 30. Plant grown from seed in a special container.
- 32. Organism that is capable of breaking down dead plant and animal matter.
- 33. Person’s occupation or profession.
- 35. Pathogenic entity consisting of nucleic acid and a protein sheath.
- 37. Obtain nourishment from either live or decaying organic matter.
- 38. Natural volcanic glass material with water holding capabilities.
- 40. One-celled, microscopic organisms.
- 41. Organism that produces disease.
- 45. Exact duplicate.