AGRICULTURE CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Across
- 3. an area that lacks affordable and nutritious food
- 5. the growth and spatial reorganization of contemporary city
- 7. The harvesting/growing of natural crops for consumption or commercial sale
- 11. Any business that's related to agriculture and its activities
- 15. A method that farmers use where they clear the vegetation of an area thats lost fertility. They leave and come back once its natural revitalized
- 16. A practice that decreases rain runoff on sloped and erosion
- 17. an underground layer of water-bearing, permeable rock
- 19. taxes imposed on goods coming from other countries by those countries
- 20. Crops that are produced for money, typically they are in high demand
- 21. agriculture that requires a lot of labor
- 24. Genetically Modified Organism
- 25. the origin of an agricultural method
- 28. a place in which the land is covered by water—salt, fresh, or somewhere in between—either seasonally or permanently
- 29. a process firms use in gathering resources, transforming them into goods or commodities, and distributing them to consumers
- 31. A revolution in agriculture that greatly increased efficiency and the amount of crops
- 34. relying on a single crop for income
- 37. basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise
- 39. people who herd cattle as there main source of food and income. They will travel great distances to let their cattle graze
- 40. the action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle,
- 41. hybridization and genetic engineering of products and the increased use of pesticides and fertilizers
Down
- 1. the appropriation of "waste" or "common land"
- 2. they act of taming and training animals to live around humans, they usually become live stock or pets
- 4. agriculture that doesn't require much labor
- 6. Wide transfer of culture, and other things in 1492
- 8. Reserves of water
- 9. A place’s access to food
- 10. Crop that are bred to better suit their environment by mixing traits of crops
- 12. The hearth of all agriculture in the world
- 13. The destruction of forests by humans
- 14. A revolution that marked the end of hunting and gathering and lead to domestication of animals and the growing of crops
- 18. the exploitation of biological processes for industrial and other purposes, especially the genetic manipulation of microorganisms for the production of antibiotics, hormones, etc.
- 22. the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level
- 23. cultivated ecosystem, generally corresponding to the spatial unit of a farm and whose ecosystem functions are valued by humans in the form of agricultural goods and services.
- 26. accompanied the Industrial Revolution that began in Great Britain in the 18th century
- 27. trade between companies in developed countries and producers in developing countries in which fair prices are paid to the producers.
- 30. the range of different types of animals in an area
- 32. The process in which vegetation and water disappear from an area
- 33. A places lack of access to food
- 35. buy in bulk sell individual products
- 36. The act of lowering the number of germs to a safe level
- 38. people who search for food(usually fruits and vegetables), but don't actually grow them