Food production - Osheen k

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Across
  1. 4. The type of production of food on a large scale, usually very capital intensive, to make a profit. Causing an excess of output that is sold in a market to earn profit. More common in MEDCs.
  2. 7. The starting material in a system, which is subjected to many steps to later produce something.
  3. 12. The artificial watering of the land, usually throw the digging of canals etc.
  4. 13. The accumulation in the soil of salts due to exploitation of water table.
  5. 16. Farming that moves from one location to another every couple of years.
  6. 17. The conversion of skin into leather.
  7. 19. A series of actions or steps taking place that convert inputs to outputs
  8. 20. A brown or black organic substance that provides nutrients for plants and increases the ability of soil to retain water.
  9. 26. Poisonous chemicals applied to crops to kill weeds.
  10. 27. A farming system in which a single crop is grown continuously in the same field.
  11. 28. The people working on the farm and possessing a certain skillset.
  12. 30. Chemicals sprayed onto plants that kill insects and other pests.
  13. 33. Farming that takes places in a permanent location. The farm and the farmer stays in the same place every year.
  14. 34. The upper surface of water in the rocks.
  15. 36. The artificial cultivation of crops
  16. 39. A shortage of food causing malnutrition and hunger.
  17. 40. Fields on steep hillsides are terraced to provide flat growing areas for crops.
  18. 42. Chemical elements, some of which are critical to plant growth, e.g. nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus.
  19. 47. The loss of soil from a field's surface by the action of wind or water, often accelerated by human actions.
  20. 48. The deterioration of the suitability of land for farming due to soil erosion, desertification and salinisation. The exhaustion of nutrients in the soil.
  21. 49. The practice of leaving a field untouched at intervals of time to allow the soil to regenerate.
  22. 50. Animals kept by farmers for their meat or other products.
  23. 51. Cereals, vegetables and fruit grown by people.
Down
  1. 1. Low amount of inputs in relation to land.
  2. 2. A machine which cuts cereal crops, separates the grains from the husks and stalks and produces three separate outputs – grain, straw (the plant stems) and the husks.
  3. 3. Rearing of animals, usually in hilly, grassy areas.
  4. 5. A method of preventing soil erosion. Crops are grown in narrow bands, often at right angles to the prevailing wind, with other bands of different crops in between. The crops are harvested at different times so the eld is never left completely bare.
  5. 6. When work done is mainly done by humans and animals.
  6. 8. Methods of protecting the soil from erosion e.g. hedges, terraces, contour ploughing, strip cropping.
  7. 9. too many animals on a plot of land, with the result that the quality of the pasture deteriorates.
  8. 10. The sowing of seeds into soil at the start of the growing season.
  9. 11. large amount of inputs per unit of land, thus inputs are more concentrated as plots are usually small in relation.
  10. 14. The excessive use of farmland to the point where productivity falls due to soil exhaustion or land degradation.
  11. 15. The finished products of a system
  12. 18. Ploughing around a hill, rather than up and down it (to prevent soil erosion).
  13. 21. The situation in which c country lacks sufficient resources to fulfil the nutritional needs of its people.
  14. 22. Changing the crop on a plot every year for three or four years before the first crop is grown again.
  15. 23. The situation in which a country has sufficient food resources to support its population. Food resources also fufil the nutritional needs of the people.
  16. 24. Seeds that have been biologically altered to have better qualities, such as disease resistance.
  17. 25. Chemicals put into the soil to increase its fertility, usually rich in nitrates and phosphates.
  18. 26. Genetically engineered crops that are grown from better quality seeds and usually provided a healthy surplus of crop
  19. 29. A type of farming which avoids the use of inorganic chemical fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides. This causes produce to usually be more expensive, but environmentally better.
  20. 31. Crops grown for the feeding of animals, usually stored and fed to the animals during the winter months
  21. 32. Large sums of money provided to countries suffering from disasters and lacking the financial resources to adress the issue. This money is provided by MEDCs to LEDCs usually and need not be returned.
  22. 33. Sums of money provided by the government to farmers to encourage certain farming practices.
  23. 35. growing of crops
  24. 37. Animals used to pull tools or machines, such as ploughs.
  25. 38. The removal of unwanted plants from the farmland to prevent hindrance to growing crops.
  26. 41. A crop produced to be sold for money.
  27. 43. Small scale farming, mostly labour intensive, and producing little crop as output, which is used to feed immediate family and close friends. Common in LEDCs.
  28. 44. Large storage towers (silos) used to store grain.
  29. 45. rearing or animals and growing of crops
  30. 46. Limits set to prevent overproduction of certain crops.