Across
- 2. a factory like farm devoted to either livestock fattening or dairying; all feed is important and no crops are grown on the farm
- 4. the feeding relationships between species in a biotech community
- 8. farming to supply the minimum food and materials necessary to survive
- 9. the art, science, and practice of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources
- 11. characteristic of farmers of their way of life
- 13. the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals
- 14. means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives therefor, to make or modify products or processes for specific use
- 15. in america commercial grain agriculture,a farm which no one lives; planting and harvesting is done by hired migratory crews
Down
- 1. a commercial type of agriculture the produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat
- 3. the cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food
- 5. the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering animals not classifiable as insects which breathe in water or pass their lives in water. By extension, the term fishing is applied to pursuing other aquatic such as various types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, frogs, and some edible marine invertebrates
- 6. the killing of wild game and the harvesting of wild plants to provide food in traditional cultures
- 7. a system of monoculture for producing export crops requiring relatively large amounts of land and capital; originally dependent on slave labor
- 10. highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership
- 12. commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because the word was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities