Unit 6 Part 1: Rural Land Use Vocabulary

6. Dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum requirement for maintaining a healthy life and carrying out light physical activity.
8. 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.
9. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
12. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
13. The most productive farmland.
14. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil.

1. Physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
2. The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
3. Rapid diffusion (spread) of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
4. A living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology.
5. Any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season.
7. Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
10. A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
11. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.