Soil pollution is also a (1) _____matter in all of the countries today. (2) _____such as heavy metals, pesticides and solvents ooze into the earth’s soil and (3) _____the food supply. Major health risks to entire ecosystems (4) _____by soil pollution. It (5) _____the amount of soil which is suitable (6) _____agricultural production and contributes to global food shortages. The (7) _____of industrial waste products generates much of the world’s soil pollution, though natural disasters can also add to the problem. In some (8) _____countries such as the US and UK, protection agencies monitor health outbreaks occur. However, developing countries do not have this luxury. Farmers in poor nations grow plants for food in polluted land both to earn a living and to avoid (10)