Paddock APHG U5a (5.1-5.6) Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects.
  2. 5. the place from which agriculture, or a form of agriculture originates
  3. 9. _(Swidden) Agriculture: 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. 12. Growing crops to feed your animals whose manure fertilizes your crops
  5. 14. the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.
  6. 17. Settling in one place and making that place a permanent home
  7. 19. _ Agriculture: Growing specialized crops such as bananas, coffee, and cacao in tropical developing countries, primarily for sale to developed countries.
  8. 21. Overall weather in an area over a long period of time
  9. 24. Crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods
  10. 26. Planting a single crop per year but not necessarily the same crop every year.
  11. 27. _ Revolution: Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds. Has greatly reduced famine, but also resulted in negative side effects like run-off and the water shortages
  12. 28. _ Settlement: a pattern of settlements in which homes and other buildings follow the lines taken by the road
  13. 31. _ Agriculture: Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil- restoring crops with cash crops and reducing in-puts of fertilizer and pesticides.
  14. 33. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.
  15. 34. A method of land description which involves identifying distances and directions and makes use of both the physical boundaries and measurements of the land.
  16. 37. _ Agriculture: specialized farming that occurs only in areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails
  17. 38. _ Settlement: a rural settlement pattern in which residents live in close proximity to one another, with farmland and pasture land surrounding the settlement; also known as a nucleated settlement
  18. 39. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area.
  19. 40. The loose, weathered material on Earth's surface in which plants can grow.
  20. 41. People shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.
  21. 42. _ Settlement: A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.
  22. 43. are the areas that share similar tempatures and precipation throughout the year
  23. 45. _ Agriculture: expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
Down
  1. 1. The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain.
  2. 2. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
  3. 4. _ Agriculture: Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
  4. 6. An agricultural method that utilizes large plantings of a single species or variety
  5. 7. A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
  6. 8. _ Agricultural Revolution: Dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication.
  7. 10. Communal lands were replaced by farms owned by individuals, and use of the land was restricted to the owner or tenants who rented the land from the owner
  8. 11. _ Agriculture: Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
  9. 13. migratory but controlled movement of livestock solely dependent on natural forage
  10. 15. The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
  11. 16. Intensive method of raising livestock
  12. 18. The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold directly to local consumers.
  13. 20. _ System: yearly rotation of several crops including wheat, turnips, barley, clover, and ryegrass, also fed livestock and promoted greater yields.
  14. 22. Surveying whereby land is divided into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, and canals
  15. 23. geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand on real estate changes as the distance to the Central Business District (CBD) increases.
  16. 25. The nucleus or "downtown" of a city, where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated, and land values are high
  17. 29. Survey method developed by Thomas Jefferson that divides land into a 6 mile by 6 mile township that is then subdivided into rectangular sections
  18. 30. The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans
  19. 32. _ Agricultural Revolution: improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce - allowed for the Industrial Revolution
  20. 35. the time of year when it is warm enough for plants to grow
  21. 36. _ Agriculture: An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area.
  22. 44. _ Agricultural Revolution: Modern mechanization of agriculture; the use of scientific knowledge to create GMOs that are drought and disease resistant; and the use of synthetic fertilizers & pesticides