Unit 5 Vocabulary

2. the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.
3. crop a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
6. Commission state agency that regulates the oil and gas industry
7. the extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness, especially referring to the western US
10. wire wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at intervals along it, used to make fences or in warfare as an obstruction.
11. trail a trail over which cattle were driven to market.
13. range a large area of grazing land without fences or other barriers.
14. something, typically money, that is owed or due.

1. a large farm, especially in the western US and Canada, where cattle or other animals are bred and raised.
4. a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
5. giving a part of each crop as rent.
8. wars control of "open range", or range land freely used for cattle grazing, which gave the conflict its name.
9. farming a person who farms rented land.
12. a man, typically one on horseback, who herds and tends cattle.