Agriculture and Food Resources
Crossword
Across
4. nutrition Consuming insufficient food to meet one’s minimum daily energy requirement for a long enough time to cause harmful effects
7. Consuming excess calories
11. severe shortage of food
13. diseases that results from lack of iron
16. Severe protein deficiency; causes stunted growth, mental retardation and death.
21. genetically engineered crops that can produce pharmaceuticals
23. deficiency impairs the immune system & results in blindness and death.
24. leads to death
25. Faulty nutrition, caused by a diet that does not supply an individual with enough protein, essential fats, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients needed for good health
26. edible insects
Down
1. growing more than one crop at a time
2. Agriculture that produces only enough crops or livestock for a farm family’s survival.
3. Incorporation of desired traits into crop lines and animals
5. land used to produce mostly grains
6. Replace nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium in the soil
8. growing only one crop
9. Agriculture that produce just enough food to feed their families and to sell for income
10. Wasting away occurs when the diet is low in both calories & proteins.
12. raising of seafood
14. burning off of tropical rainforest to create farm land
15. Agriculture that does not use chemicals
17. Agriculture that uses large amounts of fuel energy, water, commercial fertilizers, and pesticides to produce a single crop or livestock animal
18. small residential gardens
19. land used for producing meat from grazing livestock
20. Increase in global food production from increased yields per unit of area of land
22. negative name given to genetically engineered foods