Across
- 4. deliberately planted and tended by humans that is genetically distinct from its wild ancestors as a result of selective breeding
- 7. characteristics of farmers or their way of life
- 8. the killing of wild game and the harvesting of wild plants to provide food in traditional cultures
- 9. dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication
- 11. use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity
- 12. the cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food
- 13. the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
- 14. a second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
- 15. in american commercial grain agriculture, a farm on which no one lives; planting and harvesting is done by hired migratory crews
Down
- 1. the continual movement of livestock in search of forage for animals
- 2. the feeding relationships between species in a biotic community
- 3. expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
- 5. the art, science, and practice of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources
- 6. the cultural landscape of agricultural areas
- 10. a commercial type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat