Agriculture Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Degradation of land primarily because of human actions
  2. 4. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing
  3. 6. A machine that reaps,threshes,and cleans grain while moving over a field
  4. 9. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology
  5. 15. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
  6. 16. Resources that will be available for generations to come
  7. 20. Fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
  8. 22. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
  9. 23. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds
  10. 24. Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals
  11. 25. harvesting twice a year from the same field
Down
  1. 1. Farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
  2. 3. Commercial agriculture associated with large corporations
  3. 5. Subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
  4. 7. To beat our grain from stalks by trampling it
  5. 8. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
  6. 10. planting crops on ridge tops
  7. 11. Agriculture that generates products for sale off the farm
  8. 12. Provide food for a direct consumption by the farmer
  9. 13. A form of subsistence agricultre in which people shift activity from one field to another
  10. 14. Commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over and extensive area
  11. 17. The modification of Earth's surface by cultivating crops and raising crops
  12. 18. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
  13. 19. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
  14. 21. Commercial gardening and fruit farming