Berry: A small, round, soft fruit with seeds, often edible
Noun The diet of many birds includes berries.
Cultivate: To use land to grow crops.
Verb Prehistoric peoples settled in the area and began to cultvate the land.
Dig: To break up and move somethinng, especially soil, with a spade, hands or claws..
Verb We have to dig the car out of the snow.
Domesticate: To tame or train an animal so that it can live with or be used by people.
Verb Dogs and sheep were some of the first animals to be domesticated.
Exploit: To make full use of; to use selfishly or unjustly.
Verb Some factories exploit their workers.
Field: An area of open land.
Noun That field is where we keep cows.
Forage: To search the countryside for food.
Noun My grandparents used to forage for mushrooms and berries in the woods.
Gather: To collect gradually.
Verb We gathered firewood in the forest.
Hunt: To chase and kill or catch animals for food or sport.
Verb The lion was hunting its prey.
Hunter-Gatherer: A person who hunts animals and forages for plants for food instead of rasing animals and growing crops.
Noun There are only a few tribes of hunter-gatherers left.
Nomad: A member of a people who move from place to place to find food for their animals
Noun The drought forced the nomads to move.
Nomadic: Living the life of a nomad.
Adjective The Bedouin in North Africa are nomadic
Plow: A piece of farm equipment used to break up and turn soil to prepare it to be planted with a crop.
Noun A plow can be pulled by a tractor or by animals such as water buffaloes or horses.
Root: The part of a plant that grows down into the soil, takes up fluids and nutrients and holds the plant in place
Noun Pull weeds up by the roots so they don´t grow again
Settle: To set up a home.
Verb My sister got married and settled in Connecticut.
Tame: (of an animal) not dangerous or frightened of people; domesticated.
Verb domesticate (an animal).
