Chapter 10: Agriculture

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Across
  1. 6. area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
  2. 8. flooded field for growing rice
  3. 9. system of planting crops on rigid tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
  4. 10. commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was middle English word meaning "bartering" or "exchange of commodities"
  5. 11. rapid diffusion of new agriculture technology, especially new high yield seeds and fertilizers
  6. 13. patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
  7. 14. agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and their family
  8. 15. growing of fruits, vegetables and flowers
  9. 16. the time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering
  10. 19. commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations
  11. 20. degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing and tree cutting, also known as semiarid land degradation
  12. 21. seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Down
  1. 1. form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
  2. 2. large form in tropical and subtropical climates that specialized in the production of one or two crops for sale
  3. 3. form of substance agriculture which farmers must expand a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
  4. 4. agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
  5. 5. harvesting twice a year from the same field
  6. 7. farming methods that preserve long tern productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides
  7. 12. form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another, each field used for crops for a relative of a few years and left fallow for a relatively long period of time
  8. 17. area in developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain
  9. 18. the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil