Agriculture Vocab Review

Question 1

An exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (N. and S. America)

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Columbian Exchange

Question 2

cultivation of seafood

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Aquaculture

Question 3

Dry summers & cool winters; located on western sides of continents (generally); grapes, wine, olives, citrus, figs, frui

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Mediterranean Agriculture

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use of relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.

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Intensive Agriculture

Question 5

crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods

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GMOs

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in arid regions, water evaporates leaving salts behind.

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soil salinization

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identifying distances and directions and makes use of both the physical boundaries and measurements of the land.

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Metes and Bounds

Question 8

The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold directly to local consumers.

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Market Gardening

Question 9

a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee.

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commodity

Question 10

Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family

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subsistence agriculture

Question 11

network between farmers & consumers where consumers pledge support to a farm in order to receive a share of the crop

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Community Supported Agriculture

Question 12

An agricultural method that utilizes large plantings of a single species or variety

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Monocropping

Question 13

Production system based on a large estate and organized to produce a cash crop; mostly in the tropics

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Plantation Agriculure

Question 14

processing of raw materials such as manufacturing, construction, and power generation

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Secondary Activities

Question 15

Prepare and use land for crops or gardening

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Cultivate

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Fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation, communication systems, & power

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Infrastructure

Question 17

Connects producers to consumers; provides services

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Tertiary Activities

Question 18

migratory but controlled movement of livestock

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Nomadic Herding

Question 19

technique for growing crops on hillsides or mountain slopes, using step-like horizontal fields cut into the slopes

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Terraced Farming

Question 20

A farm or other property consisting of a long, narrow strip of land extending back from a river or road

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Long Lots

Question 21

rigid grid-like pattern used to facilitate the dispersal of settlers evenly across farmlands

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Township and Range

Question 22

meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

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Sustainability

Question 23

The amount of biological or living diversity per unit area

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Biodiversity

Question 24

gathering of raw materials, such as farming, mining, or logging

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Primary Activities

Question 25

form of technology that uses living organisms, usually genes, to modify products, to make or modify plants and animals

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biotechnology

Question 26

area in a developed country where it is difficult to find fresh produce

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Food Desert

Question 27

a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear the land, then the land is farmed to depletion

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All of the Above

Question 28

Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale

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Commercial Agriculture

Question 29

economic activities that involve information technology, research, data

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Quaternary activities

Question 30

high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill. Examples include scientific research and high-level management.

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quinary activities

Question 31

Idea that farmers produce certain goods at varied distance from the city

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Von Thunen Model

Question 32

the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert

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desertification

Question 33

trade in which fair prices are paid to producers in developing countries.

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Fair Trade

Question 34

A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.

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Pastoral Nomadism

Question 35

tools and equipment were modified, methods of soil preparation, fertilization, crop care, and harvesting improved

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Second Agricultural Revolution

Question 36

the raising of food, including fruit, vegetables, meat, and milk, inside cities

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Urban Agriculture

Question 37

Dating back 10,000 years, achieved plant domestication and animal domestication

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First Agricultural Revolution

Question 38

use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity

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Extensive Agriculture

Question 39

Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.

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Green Revolution

Question 40

Having to do with the countryside; farmland

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Rural

Agriculture Vocab Review

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Agriculture Vocab Review

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