Unit 21: vocab Flashcards
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Crop grown for it’s edible seeds
Grain crop
Process of preparing grain for production of alcohol
Multing
Crop plants grown for their vegetation growth and fed to animals
Forage
Crop produced for the oil content of their seeds
Oil seed crop
Fabric produced from fibers in flax plants
Linen
Oil produced from flax seeds
Linseed oil
Process of removing the seeds from cotton
Ginning
Vegetative means of propagating sugarcane
Seed piece
Crop grown for cash sale
Cash crop
Classification of plants according to growing season required
Thermo
Grasses grown for their edible seeds
Cereal crop
Crop that’s nitrogen-fixing and produce edible seeds
Seed legume crop
Crop grown for the thick, fleshy storage root that it produces
Root crop
Crop grown for the sugar content of it’s stem or roots
Sugar crop
Crop grown for it’s fleshy, underground storage stem
Tuber crop
Crop that stimulates the senses of users
Stimulant crop
Land is plowed, turning all crop residues
Conventional tilltage
Soils worked only enough so that the seed will germinate
Minimum tilltage
Machine that plants seed in precise rows and with even spacing within a row
Row crop planter
Machine that plants seed in a narrow rows at a high population
Drill planter
Scatter seed in a random pattern
Broadcast planter
The use of pipes to deliver water under pressure to a sprinkler head for the porpoise of watering plants that are remote from a water source
Sprinkler irrigation
Water flows over the soil surface to the crop
Surface irrigation
The use of small tubes to deliver irrigation water to the roots of the crop plants in a uniform manner
Drop irrigation
