Across
- 3. Refers to how the body uses the various nutrients in food. It entails cooking, storage and hygiene practices, individuals’ health, water and sanitations, feeding and sharing practices within the household.
- 7. A map that shows changes data or characteristics across an area by using shades of the same colour.
- 8. This refers to people’s ability to regularly acquire adequate quantities of food, through purchase, home production, barter, gifts, borrowing or food aid.
- 9. Refers to how resources, activities, and human demographic features of landscapes are arranged across the eartn
- 10. Term used to describe a lack of sufficient water to meet the demands of an area or population.
- 12. the study of the shape and features of land surfaces
- 13. The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
- 14. This refers to being food secure at all times.
- 15. Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals. Irrigation helps grow agricultural crops, maintain landscapes, and revegetate disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of less than average rainfall.
- 16. A change in global or regional climate patterns, attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced using fossil fuels.
- 17. The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
- 18. Soil fertility refers to the ability of a soil to sustain agricultural plant growth, i.e. to provide plant habitat and result in sustained and consistent yields of high quality.
Down
- 1. A long-term or persistent inability to meet minimum food consumption requirements
- 2. a large region of Earth that has a certain climate and certain types of living things (i.e. plants and animals)
- 4. supplied with less than the minimum amount of the nutrients or foods essential for sound health and growth
- 5. A short-term or temporary food deficit (shortage).
- 6. Term used to describe a condition in which all people, at all times, have access to enough safe nutritious food to sustain a healthy life.
- 8. This term refers to sufficient quantities of food supply and trade. It considers stock and production in a given area and the capacity to bring in food from elsewhere, through trade or aid.
- 11. The ongoing capacity of earth to maintain all life.