Rural Environments

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Across
  1. 3. A type of agriculture which concentrates on the growing of plant crops, such as cereals and vegetables
  2. 9. The addition of water to farmland by artifical means, such as by pipelines and sprays
  3. 10. A type of agriculture in which production is intended for sale in markets
  4. 11. The movement of people and employment from major cities to smaller cities and as well as to rural areas
  5. 12. Describing areas of countryside largely concerned with farming and often with relatively low population densities
  6. 13. A type of farming concerned with the production of items to meet the food and living needs of the farmers and their families
  7. 15. Animals
  8. 16. A type of agriculture using more land with lower yield to produce the same amount of food as intensive farming (which uses less land but more machinery, labor etc)
  9. 17. A set of interrelated components (stores) and processes (transfers). There are two types of system: an open system has inputs and outputs, a closed system has none
Down
  1. 1. A decline in the number of people living in a particular area
  2. 2. A community of plants and animals that interact with each other and their physical environment
  3. 4. A plant and animal community covering a large area of the Earth's surface (usually defined by the dominant vegetation, for example the tropical rain forest)
  4. 5. Structures of glass or polythene under which crops and flowers are grown.
  5. 6. The protection of aspects of the environment for the future benefit of people
  6. 7. The ease with which one location is reached from another
  7. 8. The type of agricultue that deals with rearing of livestock, for meat or other products such as milk and wool
  8. 14. A type of agriculture defined by using less area of land, but requires more fertilizers and machinery, labor and capital inputs...