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