Agriculture Term to Know

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Across
  1. 2. the art science and practice of studying and managing forest and plantaions
  2. 3. a factory like farm devoted to either livestock fattening or dairying all feed is imported
  3. 4. the cultivation of aquatic organisms especially for food
  4. 7. crops in tropical forest clearings in which the forest vegetation
  5. 9. a commerical type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat
  6. 11. use of little labor and capital to increase agriculture productivity
  7. 13. hunting by gathering hooking or trapping animals that breath water
  8. 14. the continual movement of livestock in search of forage for animals
  9. 16. the killing of wild game and the harvesting of wild plants to make food
  10. 17. changes made to the environment
  11. 18. technological organization that also uses biological systems
  12. 19. highly mechanizes, large scale farming usually under corporate
  13. 20. large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases
  14. 21. the unique way in which each culture uses its particular physical environment
  15. 23. system of agricultural organization whereas farm laborers are not compensated wages
  16. 24. characteristic of farmers or their way of life
  17. 25. 1000 years ago it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication
  18. 27. expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
Down
  1. 1. the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid tiring the soil
  2. 3. the feeding relationships between species in a biotic community
  3. 5. a second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
  4. 6. crops like flowers vegetables and fruits
  5. 8. farming to supply the minimum food and materials necessary to survive
  6. 10. agricultural or more properly an animal husbandry enterprise
  7. 12. the period of each year when crops can be grown
  8. 15. animals kept for some utilitarian purpose whose breeding by humans
  9. 22. the recent introduction of high yeild hybrid crops and chemical fertilizers and pesticides
  10. 26. the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals