AP HUG Unit 5 Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. A type of commercial agriculture that involves both growing crops and raising livestock.
  2. 7. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
  3. 10. The mass planting and harvesting of grain crops, such as wheat, barley, and millet, for sale and consumption.
  4. 12. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer’s family.
  5. 16. agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
  6. 17. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
  7. 18. The degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily due to human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.
  8. 19. A form of commercial agriculture that specializes in the production of milk and other dairy products.
  9. 20. A large-scale commercial farming operation that specializes in one or two crops, typically in tropical climates.
Down
  1. 2. Specialized farming that occurs only in areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails.
  2. 3. A form of shifting cultivation in which fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris.
  3. 4. A model that explains the location of agricultural activities in a commercial, profit-making economy. It shows different types of farming occur at varying distances from a city.
  4. 5. The time when humans first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
  5. 6. The rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers, during the mid-20th century.
  6. 8. Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides.
  7. 9. A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a few years and left fallow for a long period.
  8. 11. An agricultural system that uses small inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital relative to the area of land being farmed.
  9. 13. Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because “truck” was a Middle English word meaning "bartering" or "exchange of commodities."
  10. 14. A form of subsistence or commercial agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.
  11. 15. A form of subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals.