HUMAN GEOGRAPHY CHAPTER 9 VOCABULARY

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Across
  1. 1. The most productive farmland
  2. 3. the amount of food that an individual consumes measured in Kilocalories(Calories)
  3. 6. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil
  4. 9. A form of comercial agriculture the specializes in the procustion of milk and other dairy products
  5. 13. The growign of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
  6. 16. Capturing fish faster than they can reproduce
  7. 21. A living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology.
  8. 22. The Malay word for wet rice, increasingly used to describe a flooded field
  9. 23. 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.
  10. 26. Comercial gardening and fruit farming so named for the middle english word truck meaning barter or exchange of commodities
  11. 27. The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions
  12. 28. Seed of a cereal grass
  13. 29. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
  14. 30. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Down
  1. 2. A farming practice that leaves all of the soil undisturbed and the entire residue of the previous year's harvest left untouched on the fields.
  2. 4. Physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
  3. 5. A form of subsistence agriculture characteristics of Asia’s major population concentrations in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
  4. 7. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and farmer's family.
  5. 8. A form of Subsistience agriculture based on heridng domesticated animals
  6. 10. The capture of wild fish and other seafood living in the waters
  7. 11. A form of comercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area.
  8. 12. A system of planting crop tops to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
  9. 14. Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations
  10. 15. another name for shifting cultivation, so anmed because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burnign the debris
  11. 17. a patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
  12. 18. Rice planted on dry land in a nursery then moed to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
  13. 19. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
  14. 20. A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift in activity from one field to another each field for crops for relatively few years and then left fallow for a relatively logn time
  15. 23. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
  16. 24. A grass that yields grain for food
  17. 25. A flooded field for growing rice