12th Ed. Chapter 9 Rubenstein Guided Reading & Vocab Part 2

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Across
  1. 1. Commercial gardening and fruit farming
  2. 5. Rice planted on dry land in a nursery and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
  3. 6. The degradation of land especially in semi-arid areas
  4. 9. A large farm that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale.
  5. 13. burning a portion of forest so that the soil there can be used for agricultural purposes.
  6. 14. Commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
  7. 15. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.
  8. 16. A grass that yields grain for food
  9. 18. The Malay word for wet rice
  10. 19. Planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production cost
  11. 21. The system of commercial farming found in developed countries is called agribusiness. It is when farming is integrated into a large food-production industry
  12. 22. Seasonal migration of livestock between mountain and lowland pasture area
  13. 23. subsistence agriculture A form of subsistence agriculture characteristic of Asia's major population concentrations in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.
  14. 25. The most productive farmland
Down
  1. 2. The rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology
  2. 3. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domestic animals
  3. 4. Agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another
  4. 7. The practice of rotating the use of different fields from crop to crop to avoid exhausting the soil.
  5. 8. Growing of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and tree crops
  6. 10. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption
  7. 11. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
  8. 12. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
  9. 17. A machine that cuts grain standing in the fields
  10. 20. A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field.
  11. 24. A flooded field for growing rice