Chapter 10 Agriculture Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Commerical gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning "bartering" or "exchange of commodities"
  2. 3. A patch of lad cleared for planting through slashing and burning
  3. 5. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
  4. 7. A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote soil conservation
  5. 11. A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale
  6. 12. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
  7. 16. 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
  8. 18. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
  9. 19. A form of sub. 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
  10. 20. Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually by large corporations
  11. 21. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Down
  1. 1. When human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer fully depended on hunting and gathering
  2. 4. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
  3. 6. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
  4. 8. A form of sub. agriculture in which farmers expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
  5. 9. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
  6. 10. An area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain
  7. 13. A form of sub. agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
  8. 14. A flooded field for growing rice
  9. 15. 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
  10. 17. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil