Across
- 2. characteristic of farmers of their way of life
- 7. farming to supply the minimum food and materials necessary to survive
- 10. a commercial type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat
- 11. the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
- 12. the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals
- 13. the feeding relationships between species in a biotic community
- 15. a second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
Down
- 1. expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
- 3. use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity
- 4. a factory like farm devoted to either livestock fattening or dairying all feed is imported and no crops are grown on the farm
- 5. deliberately planted and tended by humans that is genetically distinct from its wild ancestors as a result of selective breeding
- 6. the killing of wild game and the harvesting of wild plants to provide food in traditional cultures
- 8. commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named the word was a middle english word meaning bartering or the exchange of commoditites
- 9. in american commercial grain agriculture, a farm on which no one lives; planting and harvesting is done by hired migratory crews
- 14. the art, science, and practice of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources