Agriculture Word Scramble

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Word	Definition
Winnow	To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind.
Double Cropping	Harvesting twicea year from the same field.
Paddy	Malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used as a word for sawah.
Truck Farming	Commercial gardening and fruit farming.
Horticulture	Growing of fruits, vegetables, and glowers.
Milkshed	Area surrounding a city where milk is produced.
Commercial Agriculture	Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products sell off the farm.
Agriculture	Deliberate modification of the Earth's surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals for a gain.
Winter Wheat	Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in early summer.
Ranching	Form of commercial agriculture where livestock graze over an extensive area.
Shifting Cultivation	Form of subsistence farming where people shift activity from one field to another.
Thresh	To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it.
Plantation	Large farm specializing in sale of one or two crops to a more developed country.
Pasture	Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, also land used for grazing.
Spring Wheat	Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in late summer.
Chaff	Husks of grain seperated from the seed by threshing.
Seed Agriculture	Reproduction of plants through the annual production of seeds; this is a result of sexual fertilization.
Swidden	Patch of land used for farming through slash and burn.
Wet Rice	Rice planted on dryland in a nursery then moved to a deliberately flooded field for growth.
Crop Rotation	The practice of rotating from different fields from crop to crop each year to prevent exhausting the soil.
Crop	Grain of fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season.
Pastoral Nomadism	Form of agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
Subsitence Agriculture	Agriculture designe primaily to provide food for direct consumption by the famer and family.
Reaper	Machine used to cut grain that is standing in a field.
Transhumance	Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
Vegetative Planting	Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants.
Sawah	Flooded field used for growing rice.
Prime Agricultural Land	Most productive farm land.
Hull	The outer covering of a seed.
Cereal Grain	A grass yielding grain for food.
Slash and burn Agriculture	Name for agriculture where the vegetation is slashed and the debris burned.
Grain	Seed of a cereal grass.
Intensive Subsistence Agriculture	form of agriculture where farmers must exert lots of energy to produce the maximum yield of a crop.
Agribusiness	Commercial agriculture characterized by integrating different steps in the food-processing industry, usually by large companies.
Combine	A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field.

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remove	To _____ chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind.	1	1	true
Harvesting	_____ twicea year from the same field.	2	1	true
Paddy	Definition: Malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used as a word for sawah.	3	0	false
Truck Farming	Definition: Commercial gardening and fruit farming.	4	0	false
Horticulture	Definition: Growing of fruits, vegetables, and glowers.	5	0	false
produced	Area surrounding a city where milk is _____.	6	1	true
Agriculture	_____ undertaken primarily to generate products sell off the farm.	7	1	true
surface	Deliberate modification of the Earth's _____ through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals for a gain.	8	1	true
planted	Wheat _____ in the fall and harvested in early summer.	9	1	true
Ranching	Definition: Form of commercial agriculture where livestock graze over an extensive area.	10	0	false
another	Form of subsistence farming where people shift activity from one field to _____.	11	1	true
Thresh	Definition: To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it.	12	0	false
Plantation	Definition: Large farm specializing in sale of one or two crops to a more developed country.	13	0	false
Pasture	Definition: Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, also land used for grazing.	14	0	false
Spring Wheat	Definition: Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in late summer.	15	0	false
Chaff	Definition: Husks of grain seperated from the seed by threshing.	16	0	false
Seed Agriculture	Definition: Reproduction of plants through the annual production of seeds; this is a result of sexual fertilization.	17	0	false
Swidden	Definition: Patch of land used for farming through slash and burn.	18	0	false
Wet Rice	Definition: Rice planted on dryland in a nursery then moved to a deliberately flooded field for growth.	19	0	false
prevent	The practice of rotating from different fields from crop to crop each year to _____ exhausting the soil.	20	1	true