chapter 10 ap hug

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Across
  1. 3. An area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain.
  2. 5. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
  3. 7. The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
  4. 10. A flooded field for growing rice.
  5. 11. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
  6. 12. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
  7. 15. agriculture 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.
  8. 17. shed The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied.
  9. 18. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
  10. 19. farming Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because the truck was a Middle English word meaning "barter" or "exchange of commodities."
  11. 20. A path of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.
  12. 21. A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for relatively few years and left fallow for a long period.
Down
  1. 1. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
  2. 2. Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
  3. 4. Agriculture is designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family.
  4. 6. A type of agriculture in which the farmers maximize food production on relatively small fields.
  5. 8. A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale.
  6. 9. The process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
  7. 13. A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
  8. 14. A large-scale farming enterprise.
  9. 16. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil.