Chapter 10 Agriculture Vocabulary Crossword

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