Chapter 10 Agriculture

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Across
  1. 5. agriculture primarily designed to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
  2. 7. an area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain
  3. 8. Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations
  4. 9. a flooded field for growing rice
  5. 10. commercial gardening and fruit farming, named because truck was a Middle English word meaning "bartering" or "exchange of commodities"
  6. 14. degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting, also known as semiarid land degradation
  7. 15. the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil
  8. 17. a form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield for a parcel of land
  9. 18. a form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a short period of time and then sits for a relatively long time
  10. 19. the seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
  11. 20. rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology
  12. 21. a form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Down
  1. 1. the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
  2. 2. a patch of land cleared for plating through slashing and burning
  3. 3. agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
  4. 4. a large farm in tropical or sub-tropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops
  5. 6. 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 fertilizers and pesticides
  6. 11. a system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
  7. 12. harvesting twice a year from the same field
  8. 13. the time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting an gathering
  9. 16. the area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied