AP Unit 5a Vocab Review Agriculture

BONUS: What is the best coffee?

Process of consolidating small land holdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the 18th century.

A settlement pattern in which buildings are arranged in a line, often along a road or river

widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, disease, and ideas between the Americas

Small-scale farming system; farmer plants one to a few acres that produce mixture of vegetables and fruits; local $ale$

Agricultural-based community in which families live in close proximity to each other; fields surrounding the collection

System of crop cultivation using small amounts of labor and capital in relation to area of land being farmed

A large farm thet specializes in one or two crops

The production of food primarily for sale off the farm

A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift crop activity from one field to another

The ring surrounding a city which milk can be supplied to without spoiling.

The invention & rapid diffusion of productive agricultural techniques during 1970's & 80's

The planting and harvesting of domesticated plants and the raising of domesticated animals for food

Human beings first domesticated plants & animals and no longer relied on hunting and gathering.

The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhaustion

Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pasture areas

Land survey system created by the U.S. in 1785, which divides most of the country into a grid of square-shapes

Crop cultivation undertaken in areas with ___ climates. Named after the ____ sea; warm, dry summer and mild rainy winter

A form of subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals

The process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm.

The average pattern of weather over a 30-year period for a particular region

Any agricultural economy in which the crops or animals are used nearly exclusively for local or family consumption

A diversified system of agriculture based on the cultivation crops and the rearing of animals

Used increased technology from the Industrial Revolution as a means to increase farm productivity through mechanization

Farmers work more intensively to subsist on a parcel of land; farmers waste virtually no land

Cross pollinating two genetically different strains to result in a third strain with different traits.