Agriculture - Caitlin Loughry
Across
- 3. The cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food
- 5. The cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals
- 7. Farming to supply the minimum food and materials necessary to survive
- 11. Characteristics of farmers and their way of life
- 12. A commercial type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat
- 13. A second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
- 14. The cultivation of rice on a paddy, or small flooded field enclosed by mud dikes, practiced in the humid areas of the far east
Down
- 1. Use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity
- 2. Dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication
- 4. The art, science, and practice of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources
- 6. The killing of wild game and the harvesting of wild plants to provide food and materials necessary to survive
- 8. In american commercial grain agriculture, a farm on which no one lives; planting and harvesting is done by hired migratory crews
- 9. The practice of rotating the use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
- 10. Highly mechanized, large scale farming, usually under corporate ownership
- 15. The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community