Across
- 4. A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health
- 6. mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
- 8. a material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity
- 10. to cut down and clear away the trees or forests from
Down
- 1. food production by plants and algae using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water
- 2. to consume or reduce to a very low amount
- 3. to supply (land or crops) with water by means of pipes, sprinklers, ditches, or streams
- 5. the growing of plants in water supplied with nutrients rather than in soil
- 7. fit for cultivation, as by plowing
- 9. a long ridge of sand, silt, and clay built up by a river