Land Use Crossword - Brian Huynh

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Across
  1. 2. The most productive farmland.
  2. 3. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year
  3. 5. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
  4. 8. The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals
  5. 11. Physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food
  6. 13. Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions
  7. 14. A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs
  8. 15. Rapid diffusion (spread) of new agricultural technology.
Down
  1. 1. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
  2. 4. Capturing the fish faster than they can reproduce.
  3. 6. Dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum requirement
  4. 7. The effort to modify a portion of Earth’s surface
  5. 9. A living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology.
  6. 10. Any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season.
  7. 12. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.