Chapter 13 crop prod Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| 1. Agroforestry | A combination of agriculture and forestry practices that creates a diverse, productive, and sustainable land-use system. |
| 2. Allelopathic | A plant containing compounds that inhibit some plants growth. |
| 3. Alley cropping | An agroforestry system in which trees are grown in rows with annual or perennial herbaceous crops grown between the trees. |
| 4. Biodiversity | Refers to the variety of plants and animals in a given area. |
| 5. Conservation Planting | The plantings of native, perennial grasses or other designated woody species for the purpose of conserving the soil from wind or water erosion. |
| 6. Continuous Cropping | Growing the same crop on the same land for 2 or more years. |
| 7. Contour Strip Cropping | A soil and water conservation method in which annual crops are grown in alternating strips with perennial crops, and these strips follow the contours of the land rather than a straight line. |
| 8. Cover Cropping | A crop planted to protect the soil between harvest of a cash crop and planting of the next cash crop. |
| 9. Crop Rotation | A planned sequence of different crops that are grown over the years on the same land. |
| 10. Cropping System | The management of crops in space and time to efficiently use the available climatic and soil resources. |
| 11. Double Crop | A multiple cropping strategy in which two crops are grown during a single growing season. |
| 12. Evenness | The distribution or relative abundance of the individuals of a species. |
| 13. Intercropping | The system of growing two or more crops on the same piece of land at the same time. It is also called polyculture. |
| 14. Living Mulch | The system of planting annual grain crops into a living, but suppressed, perennial sod that is able to recover after the grain crop is harvested. |
| 15. Mixed Intercropping | A type of polyculture in which two or more crops are grown together randomly. |
| 16. Monoculture | A system in which a single crop is grown in a field during the growing season. |
| 17. Multiple Cropping | The production of two or more different crops in succession from the same piece of land in a year. |
| 18. Polyculture | Growing two or more crops together at the same time on the same piece of land; also known as intercropping. |
| 19. Richness | The number of species in an ecosystem or number of crops in an agroecosystem. |
| 20. Riparian Buffer | A strip of natural vegetation used to protect streams and other environments from adjacent agricultural areas. |
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