Unit 5 Module 34 & 35 Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Growing two or more crops in the same field at the same time to increase efficiency, protect soil, or reduce risk.
  2. 4. Revolution The shift from hunting and gathering to farming and herding, allowing people to produce food and form more permanent settlements.
  3. 6. settlement A rural settlement pattern where farms or homes are spread out across the landscape rather than grouped together.
  4. 7. and bounds A land survey system that uses natural features, distances, and directions to define property boundaries.
  5. 11. area An area with low population density, often characterized by agriculture, open land, small settlements, or resource-based economic activities.
  6. 15. A tall storage structure used to hold grain, animal feed, or other agricultural products.
  7. 17. A cold climate region with low-growing vegetation, frozen or seasonally frozen ground, and a very short growing season.
  8. 18. The place or region where an innovation, cultural trait, or agricultural practice begins and then spreads.
  9. 20. A cultural and agricultural hearth in present-day Mexico and Central America where crops such as maize were domesticated.
  10. 21. survey method A land division system using long, narrow plots that often extend back from a river, road, or canal so settlers have access to transportation or water.
  11. 22. The variety of plant and animal life in a place or ecosystem.
  12. 24. settlement A rural settlement pattern where homes and farm buildings are grouped closely together, often around a village, road, or shared resource.
  13. 25. A wild grass from Mesoamerica that was selectively bred by humans into modern maize, or corn.
Down
  1. 1. landscape The visible human imprint of farming on the land, including fields, farm buildings, fences, irrigation systems, crops, roads, and settlement patterns.
  2. 3. settlement pattern A settlement pattern where homes or buildings are arranged in a line, often along a road, river, coastline, or valley.
  3. 5. survey A land survey that shows property boundaries, land ownership, and divisions of land.
  4. 8. River Valley A river valley region in South Asia where early agriculture and urban civilization developed.
  5. 9. A farm household and its related buildings, such as barns, sheds, silos, and equipment storage.
  6. 10. The process by which humans selectively breed and adapt plants or animals for human use.
  7. 12. and range A rectangular land survey system that divides land into a grid of townships and sections, common in much of the United States.
  8. 13. Exchange The widespread exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after European contact with the Americas.
  9. 14. settlement A place where people live in a rural area, often connected to farming, ranching, forestry, mining, or other land-based activities.
  10. 16. Crescent A region in Southwest Asia where early agriculture developed, including the domestication of wheat, barley, sheep, and goats.
  11. 19. patterns The spatial arrangement of where people live, including clustered, dispersed, or linear patterns.
  12. 23. methods Systems used to divide, measure, and organize land for ownership, settlement, farming, or government administration.