CH 10 Agriculture Key Terms

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Across
  1. 3. Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution.
  2. 4. Flooded field for growing rice
  3. 7. A way of life of peoples who do not live continually in the same place but move cyclically or periodically
  4. 10. agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
  5. 12. degradation of land primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting
  6. 13. Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
  7. 14. The art or practice of garden cultivation and management
  8. 15. commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations
  9. 18. practice of rotting use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhaustion the soil
  10. 19. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.
  11. 20. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family.
  12. 21. Process of moving from one plot of land to another
Down
  1. 1. Commercial gardening and fruit farming
  2. 2. The seasonal movement of livestock (herding) between mountains and lowland pastures.
  3. 5. time when humans beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied on hunting and gathering
  4. 6. An area in which trees have been planted, especially for commercial purposes
  5. 8. Great increase in production of food grains
  6. 9. Where a farmer cultivates a small plot of land using simple tools and more labor
  7. 11. A form of conservation tillage where the farmer builds ridges or raised beds
  8. 16. an area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain.
  9. 17. A region producing milk that may be supplied to the area of demand