CH 10 AGRICULTURE

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Across
  1. 1. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
  2. 7. degradation of land
  3. 8. desert an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food.
  4. 9. agriculture Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family.
  5. 12. cultivation A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.
  6. 14. revolution The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
  7. 17. commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
  8. 20. cropping Harvesting twice a year from the same field
  9. 21. tillage A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
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  1. 2. agriculture Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
  2. 3. agriculture 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.
  3. 4. nomadism A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
  4. 5. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.
  5. 6. farming Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning “bartering" or "exchange of commodities”.
  6. 10. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
  7. 11. revolution Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
  8. 13. subsistence agriculture A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.
  9. 15. A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country.
  10. 16. rotation The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil.
  11. 18. A flooded field for growing rice.
  12. 19. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied.