Agriculture Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
  2. 5. Subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
  3. 9. Farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
  4. 16. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology
  5. 17. The modification of Earth's surface by cultivating crops and raising crops
  6. 18. harvesting twice a year from the same field
Down
  1. 1. A form of subsistence agricultre in which people shift activity from one field to another
  2. 3. Agriculture that generates products for sale off the farm
  3. 4. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing
  4. 6. Resources that will be available for generations to come
  5. 7. Degradation of land primarily because of human actions
  6. 8. Fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
  7. 10. Provide food for a direct consumption by the farmer
  8. 11. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds
  9. 12. Commercial agriculture associated with large corporations
  10. 13. Commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over and extensive area
  11. 14. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
  12. 15. Commercial gardening and fruit farming