Vocabulary of Agriculture

Agriculture is the art and science of __ the soil, __ crops and raising __.

• mowing/selling/livestock

• cultivating/growing/livestock

• growing/planting/livestock

• All of the above

Agriculture includes the preparation of plant and __ products for people to use and their __ to markets.

• animal/money

• animal/import

• animal/distribution

• goats/exportation

Agriculture provides most of the world’s food and __.

• water

• chicken

• animals

• fabrics

Cotton, wool, and leather are all agricultural __.

• products

• things

• events

• foods

Agriculture includes such forms of cultivation as hydroponics and aquaculture. Both involve farming in __.

• water

• fluid

• liquid

• irrigation

Hydroponics is the __ of growing plants in nutrient solutions. Aquaculture is primarily the cultivation of __.

• activity/fish and shellfish

• science/fish and poultry

• activity/piggery and snailery

• science/fish and shellfish

Crops are __ according to the season, type of soil, and amount of water needed.

• planted

• harvested

• irrigated

• watered

In coastal West Africa, farmers plant corn soon after the first rains of the __ season. They often use an ancient __ of clearing called slash-and-burn.

• growing/way

• planting/arrangement

• growing/method

• harvesting/method

First, the farmers cut all the brush in their plot. When the vegetation dries, they set fire to it. The __ from the fire makes the soil easy to turn, and the burned vegetation __ it. The farmer then sows kernels of corn saved from the previous year’s __.

• rain/fertilizer/harvest

• heat/fertilises/harvest

• coolness/maure/grow

• hotness/fertilises/harvester

The practice of growing several crops in the same plot is called __ which prevents moisture loss and soil __ from seasonal rains; by covering most of the ground with __.

• joint planting/watering/vegetables

• multiple planting/irrigation/weeds

• mixture planting/flooding/flowers

• intercropping/erosion/vegetation