Across
- 1. the feeding relationship between species in a biotic community
- 3. a second crop is planted after the first one has been harvested
- 7. the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting soil
- 11. farming to supply the minimum amount of food and materials necessary to survive
- 14. the cultivation of of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals
Down
- 1. dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication
- 2. the continual movement of livestock in search of forage for animals
- 4. the cultivation of rice on paddy, or small flooded fields enclosed by mud dikes, practiced in the humid areas of the far east
- 5. highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership
- 6. the art, science, and practice of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources
- 8. the cultural landscape of agricultural areas
- 9. the killing of wild game and the harvesting of wild plants to provide food in traditional cultures
- 10. a commercial type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat
- 12. expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
- 13. characteristics of farmers or their way of life