Agriculture- Dan Evans

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Across
  1. 4. of farmers of their way of life
  2. 6. are,science,and practice of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources
  3. 10. to supply the minmium food and materials necessary to survive
  4. 14. the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
  5. 15. feeding relationships between species in a biotic community
Down
  1. 1. planted and tended by humans that is genetically distinct from its wild ancestors as a result of selective breeding
  2. 2. killing of wild game and the harvesting of wild plants to provide food in traditional cultures.
  3. 3. cultivation of rice on a paddy, or small flooded field enclosed by mud dikes, practiced in the humid
  4. 5. American commercial grain agriculture, a farm on which no one lives; planting and harvesting is done by hired migratory crews.
  5. 7. system of monoculture for producing export crops requiring relatively large amounts of land and capital; originally dependent on slave labor
  6. 8. period of each year when crops can be grown. It is usually determined by climate and crop selection.
  7. 9. commercial type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat
  8. 11. commercial gardening and fruit farming,so named because the word was a Middle English word meaning Bartering or exchange of commodities
  9. 12. like farm devoted to either livestock fattening or dairying; all feed is important and no crops are grown on the farm
  10. 13. the cultivation of aquatic organisms especially for food