Module 33 & 34 vocab

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Across
  1. 3. Center of farm operation, which includes the farmhouse barns, shed, livestock pens, and family garden.
  2. 4. Food production mainly for consumption by the farming family and local community, rather than principally for sale in the market.
  3. 5. Agriculture that involves cutting small plots in forests or woodlands, burning the cuttings to clear the ground and release nutrients, and planting in the ash of the cleared plot.
  4. 7. The planting and harvesting of domesticated plants and the raising of domesticated animals for food.
  5. 9. An animal that depends on people for food an shelter and is different from its wild ancestors in looks and behavior as a result of close contact with humans.
  6. 10. The average pattern of weather over a 30-year period for a particular region.
  7. 11. A crop raised to be sold for profit rather than to feed the farm family and the livestock; common cash crops are cotton, flax, hemp, coffee, and tobacco.
  8. 16. Crop cultivation and livestock rearing systems that use high levels of labor and capital relative to the size of the landholding.
  9. 17. A settlement pattern in which famililies live relatively distant from one another.
  10. 18. A highly mechanized commercial farming system that specialized in the production of cereal grains; requires large farms and widespread use of machinery, synthetic fertilizer, pesticides, and genetically engineered seeds.
  11. 19. The day-to-day atmospheric conditions that affect daily decisions.
  12. 20. The visible imprint of agricultural practices.
Down
  1. 1. A small-scale farming system in which a farmer plants one to a few acres that produce a diverse mixture of vegetables and fruits, mostly for sale in local and regional markets.
  2. 2. Crop cultivation and livestock rearing systems that require little hired labor or monetary investment to successfully raise cropes and animals.
  3. 6. A fenced enclosure used for intensive livestock feeding that serves to limit livestock movement and associated weight loss.
  4. 8. A plant that is deliberately planted, protected, cared for, and used by humans and is genetically distinct from its wild ancesters.
  5. 12. Vegetables fhat form below ground and must be dug at maturity, such as potatoes and yams.
  6. 13. The ways in which people organize themselves on the land
  7. 14. A scaled-up version of market gardening, with more acreage, less crop diversity, and a stronger orientation toward more distant markets.
  8. 15. Large landholding devoted to capital-intensive, specialized production of a single tropical or subtropical crop for the global marketplace.