Across
- 1. A type of commercial agriculture that involves both growing crops and raising livestock.
- 7. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
- 10. The mass planting and harvesting of grain crops, such as wheat, barley, and millet, for sale and consumption.
- 12. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer’s family.
- 16. agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
- 17. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
- 18. The degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily due to human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.
- 19. A form of commercial agriculture that specializes in the production of milk and other dairy products.
- 20. A large-scale commercial farming operation that specializes in one or two crops, typically in tropical climates.
Down
- 2. Specialized farming that occurs only in areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails.
- 3. A form of shifting cultivation in which fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris.
- 4. A model that explains the location of agricultural activities in a commercial, profit-making economy. It shows different types of farming occur at varying distances from a city.
- 5. The time when humans first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
- 6. The rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers, during the mid-20th century.
- 8. Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides.
- 9. A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a few years and left fallow for a long period.
- 11. An agricultural system that uses small inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital relative to the area of land being farmed.
- 13. Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because “truck” was a Middle English word meaning "bartering" or "exchange of commodities."
- 14. A form of subsistence or commercial agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.
- 15. A form of subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals.