Across
- 3. A prolonged period of lack of food in areas defined as food desserts, drought areas, food insecure, and otherwise places unable to access food
- 5. An agrichemical that targets undesirable organisms such as aphids, weevils, and grasshoppers
- 6. Keeps pests off and helps your plants
- 8. An agrichemical that provides more nutrients to your crops
- 9. An agrichemical that targets undesirable plants labeled as weeds and exterminates them to reduce competition
- 11. An agricultural technique that focuses on growing multiple kinds of similar kinds of plants near each other
- 13. Areas where nutritious, inexpensive, fresh food is easily available for most people
- 15. The cultivation of ocean fish, shellfish, and water plants for human consumption
- 16. The stripping of land from forests. Often caused by Lumber and slash and burn industries
- 18. An agricultural technique that grows one kind of crop
- 19. Areas where nutritious, inexpensive, fresh food is unavailable or rare for most people
Down
- 1. The growth and Domestication of plants and animals for profit and not personal consumption
- 2. Agricultural practices that take place on smaller plots of land and try to extract the most out of it. Very intense
- 4. An area turned into a desert after intense irrigation and diversion of water dries up an area. Can also be caused by salinization
- 7. Domestication of plants and animals for human consumption
- 10. Crop A plant/crop grown just to be sold. Ex:sugar, cotton, tobacco
- 12. The average weather in an area over 30 years
- 14. The travel of agrichemical residue from farms to other places after it rains. causes algae blooms, pollution, and can effect ground water purity
- 17. The industry of farming in large areas that is usually highly mechanized and often uses mono cropping. associated with cereal farming and ranching