Chapter Ten Agriculture

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Across
  1. 3. 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 an extended period.
  2. 4. an area in a developed country where food is difficult to obtain.
  3. 6. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
  4. 7. Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
  5. 9. A system of planting crops on ridge tops to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
  6. 11. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer’s family
  7. 12. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
  8. 15. Farming methods that provide long term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides.
  9. 17. agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
  10. 18. A patch of land cleared for farming through slashing and burning.
  11. 19. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and low land pastures.
  12. 20. Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
Down
  1. 1. A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country.
  2. 2. The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
  3. 5. degradation of land, especially in semi-arid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. Also known as semi-arid land degradation.
  4. 8. The area surrounding a city from where milk is supplied.
  5. 10. nomadism A form of substance agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
  6. 13. commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a middle English word meaning ‘bartering” or “exchange of commides.”
  7. 14. The process of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil.
  8. 16. Subsistence; agriculture A form of substance agriculture in which farmers must expend a large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.
  9. 21. A flooded field for growing rice