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