Agriculture

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Across
  1. 2. Producing something out of an agricultural product to increase its value at market. Ex. Cheese or bread
  2. 3. Settlement pattern where dwelling are spread out
  3. 5. A crop whose genetic structure has been altered to make it more useful and efficient for human purposes.
  4. 7. When one company controls a commodity chain
  5. 8. When mountains are carved away to create agricultural land
  6. 12. Areas of high poverty where people cant buy healthy food due to a lack of grocery stores
  7. 16. Harvesting twice a year from a field
  8. 20. The loss of forest due to shifting cultivation
  9. 23. Growing crops in water
  10. 28. Survey systems that creates irregular shaped lots
  11. 31. The region where agriculture originated
  12. 32. Bringing water in from another area to farm
  13. 35. Creating rows between crops
  14. 38. Agricultural revolution that introduced the heavy use of machines
  15. 40. Model that stressed the importance of shipping cost, land cost, and pershiability in determining what crop will be grown.
  16. 42. Farming in order to make a profit
  17. 44. A settlement pattern where dwellings are in lines
  18. 45. The growing of fruits and vegetables
  19. 46. Type of farming that doesnt use chemicals
Down
  1. 1. “Slash-and-burn” agriculture involves burning a portion of forest so that the soil there can be used for agricultural purposes. The community then uses this land for a short time, possibly a few years, and then moves on to a new area, which is, in turn, burned for agricultural use.
  2. 4. Also known as swidden
  3. 6. Movements that aim to connect food producers and consumers in the same geographic region, to develop more self-reliant and resilient food networks
  4. 9. A system in which a farm operation is supported by shareholders within the community who share both the benefits and risks of food production. (farmers markets)
  5. 10. The growth of desert due to bad agricultural practice
  6. 11. Survey system that created a grid pattern
  7. 13. The movement of goods and people between the old and new world
  8. 14. When people can not get food due to distribution issues
  9. 15. Form of agriculture that grows grapes, dates, and olives
  10. 17. Survey system that creates rectangles that gives everyone access to a road or river
  11. 18. yields a large amount of output per acre through less intensive farming
  12. 19. Agriculture that requires large quantities of inputs (e.g., labor, capital, agricultural products) per unit of land.
  13. 21. Farming in cities to help alleviate food deserts
  14. 22. The diffusion of modern agricultural technologies from MDCs to LDCs in the 1950 to help with famine
  15. 24. When crops are grown for personal consumption
  16. 25. When restaurants by from local farmers.
  17. 26. The Everglades are an example of this.
  18. 27. The engineering of organisms
  19. 28. Growing one crop on the land without rotation
  20. 29. The cultivation of fish or other sea life
  21. 30. Theory that states land is cheaper nearest a city therefore activities will be more intensive
  22. 33. a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.
  23. 34. Occurs when soil in an arid climate has been made available for agricultural production using irrigation. The water evaporates quickly off the newly irrigated land, leaving residues of salt lying in the earth. Over time this causes the land to become infertile.
  24. 36. The reduction in the per unit cost of production as the volume of production increases
  25. 37. How many people the land can support
  26. 39. The process of food going from the ground to the table
  27. 41. to plant a crop between (plants of another kind) also : to set out young trees among (existing growth)
  28. 43. A type of settlement where the dwellings are built next to each other