chapter 10 vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. commercial gardening and fruit farming, so so named because truck was a middle English word meaning battering or exchange of commodities.
  2. 5. commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry
  3. 6. a patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
  4. 8. agriculture designed primarily for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
  5. 9. 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
  6. 13. the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil
  7. 15. a form of substance 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.
  8. 17. A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale usually to a more developed country
  9. 18. harvesting twice a year from the same field
  10. 19. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
  11. 20. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Down
  1. 1. Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops and cash crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides.
  2. 2. a flooded field for growing rice
  3. 3. the time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering
  4. 7. A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
  5. 10. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
  6. 11. agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
  7. 12. 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
  8. 14. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
  9. 16. the seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures