Unit 6 Part 1 Vocab

2. Capturing the fish faster than they can reproduce.
6. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.
12. The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
15. Any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season.
16. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.

1. The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic growth.
3. Physical, social, and economical access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
4. Agriculture undertaken primarily to genrate products for sale off the farm.
5. A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
7. The most productive farmland.
8. Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
9. Dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum requirement for maintaining a healthy life and carrying out light physical activity.
10. Rapid diffusion (spread) of new agriculture technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
11. The practice of rotating crop use of different feilds from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil.
13. Degradation of land caused usually by the actions of humans.
14. Genetically modified food.