Chapter 10 Agriculture

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Across
  1. 2. commercial agriculture which involves many food processing steps
  2. 5. the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
  3. 6. form of subsidence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
  4. 8. used to provide directly to the farmer and their family
  5. 11. another form of subsidence agriculture in which people shift field activity from one crop to another on a planned yearly basis
  6. 15. a large southern farm that focuses one producing one or two crops for sale
  7. 16. Time when humans ceased to rely on entirely hunting and gathering
  8. 18. Agriculture utilized for the intent to generate products
  9. 20. form of subsidence agriculture in which farmers must expend much effort to achieve the most out of a parcel of land
Down
  1. 1. harvesting twice a year from the same field
  2. 3. the degradation of land due to human actions
  3. 4. farming methods designed to be eco and soil friendly
  4. 7. commercial gardening and fruit farming
  5. 9. an area within a developed country where healthy food is difficult to acquire
  6. 10. a patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
  7. 12. a planting system put in place to reduce costs and increase soil quality
  8. 13. rotating the use of different fields from crop to crop in order to not exhaust the soil
  9. 14. a flooded field used for growing rice
  10. 17. rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology
  11. 19. the area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
  12. 21. the seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures