Across
- 3. patterns in which farmers lived in homes spread throughout the countryside; a rural settlement pattern
- 8. a type of agriculture that uses heavy investments in labor and capital (EXs: market gardening, plantations, and large-scale mixed crop and livestock systems)
- 12. the roads, bridges, tunnels, ports, electrical grids, sewers, telecommunications, etc. of a country
- 19. garden plots that people use to share agricultural products with family, friends, and perhaps those in need
- 20. crops that are non-GMO, produced without pesticides or synthetic fertilizers, and use sustainable growing practices
- 23. the first major hearth of agriculture located in Southwest Asia
- 28. the practice of producing dairy products
- 29. lack of gender equality in farming that has result in a disparity of 20 to 30 percent between male- and female-run farms
- 30. a type of subsistence extensive farming in which farmers grow crops on a piece of land for a year or two, then move to another field when the soil loses its fertility
- 34. a type of shifting cultivation in which all vegetation in an area of forest is cut down and burned in place
- 35. a process used by corporation to gather resources, transform them into goods, and then transport them to consumers
- 36. growing crops; the process by which wild plants are cultivated into productive crops
- 37. the commercial grazing of animals confined to a specific area
Down
- 1. expanded mechanization of farming, developed new global agricultural systems, and used scientific and information technologies to further previous advances in agricultural production
- 2. alteration of natural vegetation in arid areas that causes fertile land to become infertile
- 4. created rectangular plots of consistent size called townships
- 5. farmers build a series of steps into the side of a hill
- 6. a capital-intensive livestock operation in which many animals are kept in close quarters, and bred and fed in a controlled environment
- 7. an economic model that suggested a pattern for the types of products that farmers would produce in different positions relative to the market (community) where they sold their goods
- 9. a tax on imports
- 10. the fastest growing form of food production; the practice of raising and harvesting fish and other forms of food that live in water
- 11. limit the quantity of a good imported
- 13. public financial support provided by governments to farmers
- 14. a type of agriculture that includes market gardening/truck farming and dairy farming
- 15. a type of agriculture that uses low inputs of resources but has the goal of selling the product for profit (EX: ranching)
- 16. the study of how land is used and the impact of changing land use
- 17. a large commercial farm that specializes in one crop
- 18. an increase in efficiency to lower the per-unit production cost
- 21. those for which consumers are willing to pay more because of special qualities or because they are difficult to acquire
- 22. a type of subsistence extensive agriculture that is practice in arid and semi-arid climates in which nomads rely on their animals for survival
- 24. buildings and human activities are organized close to a body of water or along a transportation route; a rural settlement pattern
- 25. the number of people that U.S. farmers can support given the available resources
- 26. the practice of raising wheat in dry regions
- 27. the process of breeding two plant that have desirable characteristics to produce a single seed with both characteristics
- 30. occurs when salts from water used by plants remain in the soil
- 31. the technique of planting different crops in a specific sequence on the same plot of land in order to restore nutrients back into the soil
- 32. planting and harvesting a crop two times per year on the same piece of land
- 33. the removal of large tracts of forests