UNIT 5

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Across
  1. 1. Cultivation - a plot of land was cultivated temporarily and is abandoned to allow vegetation to grow freely while the cultivator moves to another plot.
  2. 4. rural settlements -Homes and other structures evenly distributed across the landscape
  3. 5. - discouragement and unsupportive of increasing the birth rate.
  4. 8. malthusians - Malthus did not account for new farming techniques and food preservations
  5. 9. - act of running a ranch, which is essentially an extensive farm for the sole purpose of raising livestock and crop
  6. 10. agriculture - Food production is grown with the intention of making profit
  7. 12. Nomadism - The caring for animals in order to extract subsistence livelihoods.
  8. 15. Crop - Crops that are grown and not considered necessary for human survival. Ex: sugarcane, tobacco, tea
  9. 18. - tillage between rows of crops of plants
  10. 19. Cropping - practice of growing one kind of crop
  11. 20. Thunen Model - used to explain the spatial organization of agriculture and how it is influenced by transportation costs
  12. 21. rural settlements - Homes and other structures evenly distributed across the landscape
  13. 22. agriculture - Mediterranean agriculture is the practice of crop cultivation undertaken in areas with Mediterranean climates
  14. 23. culture - The growth of a single crop or organism especially on agricultural or forest land.
  15. 25. cultivation of seafood
Down
  1. 1. Farming-Food production that is primarily grown to sustain the farmer and their family.
  2. 2. modified organisms - changes have been made to the genome of a plant or animal
  3. 3. Crop - A food that is regularly consumed/used. Ex: cotton, rubber
  4. 6. revolution - traditional medieval farming to more productive efficient, and mechanical methods of farming
  5. 7. - business sector encompassing farming and farming-related commercial activities
  6. 8. Herding - The continual movement of livestock in search of forage for animals.
  7. 11. Gardening - Cultivation on suburban land and utilizes heavy fertilizers
  8. 13. fishing -Large amounts of fishing in an area.
  9. 14. - encourages people to have babies and increase the birth rate
  10. 16. theory - population growth will eventually and inevitably outnumber food production , leading to global famine.
  11. 17. insecurity - household's inability to consistently obtain enough food for each member to lead an active, healthy life
  12. 24. rural settlements - Houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each others
  13. 25. domestication - The mutual relationship between non-humans and the humans who have an influence on them.