CH 10 AGRICULTURE

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Across
  1. 2. an area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain
  2. 4. 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 fro a relatively long period
  3. 6. the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil
  4. 8. commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations
  5. 12. commercial gardening and fruit farming
  6. 15. farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring cro
  7. 16. the time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering
  8. 17. a flooded field for growing rice
  9. 18. rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
  10. 19. a from of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
  11. 20. the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
  12. 21. agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Down
  1. 1. degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting (also known as semiarid land degradation)
  2. 3. the area surrounding a city from where milk is supplied
  3. 5. harvesting twice a year from the same field
  4. 7. 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
  5. 9. a system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
  6. 10. a large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale
  7. 11. a patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
  8. 13. agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the famrmer's family
  9. 14. the seasona migratio of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures