Agriculture Crossword
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
 
 
Down: 1) Created Crop hearth map; identified agriculture as a hearth independent invention and said agriculture was not accidental but deliberate 2) A change in farming practices, marked by new tools and techniques, that diffused from Britain and the Low Countries starting in the early 18th century. 3) Movement beginning in the 1950s and 1960s in which scientists used knowledge of genetics to develop new high yield strains of grain crops. 4) the sustainable use and management of Earth’s natural resources to meet human need such as food and medicine 5) Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population. 6) An agricultural practice in which farmers expand a great deal of effort to produce as much yield as possible from an area of land. 9) A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area. 10) Chemicals used in farming to kill pests 12)  An agricultural practice that provides crops or livestock to feed one’s family and close community using fewer mechanical resources and more people to care for the crops and livestock. 18) system that delineates property lines 23) A disease carried from one host to another by an intermediate host. 25) The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Across: 7) A plant or animal with specific characteristics obtained through the manipulation of its genetic makeup. 8) Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco. 11) The large-scale system that includes the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products and equipment. 13) Economic sector associated with the production of goods from raw materials; includes manufacturing, processing, and construction. 14) A system of land surveying east of the Appalachian Mountains, It is a system that relies on descriptions of land ownership and natural features such as streams or trees. Because of the imprecise nature of metes and bounds surveying, the U.S. The Land Office Survey abandoned the technique in favor of the rectangular survey system. 15) clustered rural settlement pattern where villages are located together and surrounded by farmland 16) Creates rectangular plots of consistent size (Six miles long and six miles wide). 17) A form of commercial agriculture that specializes in the production of milk and other dairy products. 19) Developed by Wladimir Koppen, a system for classifying the world’s climates on the basis of temperature and precipitation. 20) An agricultural practice that focuses on producing crops and raising animals for the market for others to purchase.21) Economic sector that is a subset of the quaternary sector; involves the very top leaders of government, science, universities, nonprofits, health care, culture, and media. 22) A type of large-scale commercial farming of one particular crop grown for markets often distant from the plantation. 24) The agricultural system of planting one crop or raising one type of animal annually. 26) Improper use of irrigation or water high in salt content can cause salinization of the soil. Salinization occurs when salts from water used by plants remain in the soil. Results in lower yields. 27) Economic sector that is a subset of tertiary sector activities that require workers to process and handle information and environmental technology. 28) A method of agriculture in which existing vegetation is cut down and burned off before new seeds are sown; often used when clearing land. 29) A theory that describes the relationships between land value, commercial location, and transportation (primarily in urban areas) using a bid-rent gradient, or slope; used to describe how land costs are determined. 30) Economic sector that includes a host of activities that involve the transport, storage, marketing, and selling of goods or services; also called the service sector.31) A movement that tries to provide farmers and workers in peripheral and semi-peripheral countries with a fair price for their products by providing more equitable trading conditions. 32) An agricultural practice that consists of growing hardy trees and shrubs and raising sheep and goats. 33) A network of people, information, processes, and resources that work together to produce, handle, and distribute a commodity or product.34) The shift from foraging for food to farming about 11,000 years ago, marking the beginning of agriculture. 35) Economic sector associated with removing or harvesting products from the earth; includes agriculture, fishing, forestry, mining or quarrying, and extracting liquids or gas. 36) Added to the crop and soil to increase yields.
 

 

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