The Silent Soil Crisis

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Across
  1. 3. the largest water-use crop in California
  2. 7. added to soil to increase its fertility
  3. 9. how plants create the "small" water cycle
  4. 10. the company that invented glyphosate
  5. 12. turning fertile soil into arid dirt
  6. 13. the #1 threat to soil
  7. 15. genetically modified organism
  8. 16. production of these crops boomed post-WW2
Down
  1. 1. a body of rock that holds groundwater
  2. 2. most common herbicide in the world
  3. 4. makes up 76% of our air
  4. 5. a three-letter pesticide
  5. 6. a form of drilling for natural gas
  6. 8. breaking up the soil to plant seeds
  7. 11. the "holy trinity" of industrial farming
  8. 14. creates dead zones in waterways