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Agriculture Vocab
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1. Loss of the top fertile layer of soil is lost through erosion. It is a tremendous problem in areas with fragile soils - steep slopes - or torrential seasonal rains
Chaff
Topsoil loss
Truck farming
Horticulture
2. Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants - but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who ingest the chemicals
Crop
Swidden
Thunian patterns
Pesticides
3. A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale - usually to a more developed country
Plantation
Prime agricultural alnd
Milkshed
Crop rotation
4. A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
Commercial agriculture
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Second Agricultural Revolution
Double cropping
5. Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution - typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides
metallurgy
Seed agriculture
Sustainable agriculture
Hull
6. Also Neolithic Revolution. The period of time about 12 -000 years ago when the humans transitioned from hunting and gathering communities to agriculture and settlement bands due to the use of plant and animal domestication.
Industrial Revolution
Swidden
First Agricultural Revolution
Reaper
7. Crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides or fertilizers
Truck farming
organic agriculture
Double cropping
Vegetative planting
8. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Horticulture
Pesticides
Paddy
Transhumance
9. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
Plantation
Subsistence agriculture
Wet rice
First Agricultural Revolution
10. The growing of fruits - vegetables - and flowers
Genetically modified foods
Horticulture
biotechnology
Third Agricultural Revolution
11. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
luxury crops
plantation agriculture
metallurgy
Horticulture
12. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
Horticulture
Thunian patterns
Double cropping
Subsistence agriculture
13. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants
Winnow
biotechnology
Vegetative planting
plantation agriculture
14. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
Combine
metallurgy
Subsistence agriculture
Labor-intensive agriculture
15. The most productive farmland
Thunian patterns
Pasture
Vegetative planting
Prime agricultural alnd
16. An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution
metallurgy
Planned agricultural economy
Combine
Industrial Revolution
17. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Green Revolution
Grain
agricultural origin
Transhumance
18. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Slash-and-burn agriculture
luxury crops
Planned agricultural economy
Milkshed
19. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
agribusiness
Specialty crops
Ranching
feedlots
20. Process that occurs when soils in arid areas are brought under cultivation through irrigation. In arid climates - water evaporates quickly off the ground surface - leaving salty residues that render the soil infertile
Milkshed
Transhumance
mechanization
Salinization
21. When cash crops are grown on large estates
Slash-and-burn agriculture
plantation agriculture
Shifting cultivation
Pesticides
22. The use of genetically engineered crops in agricutlure and DNA manipulation in livestock in order to increase production. Example: radiation of meats and vegetables to prolong their freshness
Sawah
feedlots
biotechnology
Cereal grain
23. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
Transhumance
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Plantation
Winnow
24. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Specialty crops
Shifting cultivation
extensive agriculture
Spring wheat
25. To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
organic agriculture
Ridge tillage
feedlots
Thresh
26. In agriculture - the replacement of human labor with technology or machines
Third Agricultural Revolution
mechanization
Green Revolution
von Thunen Model
27. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
Mediterranean agriculture
extensive agriculture
agricultural origin
Commercial agriculture
28. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Subsistence agriculture
Wet rice
Sawah
First Agricultural Revolution
29. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
Reaper
Double cropping
von Thunen Model
Plantation
30. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
luxury crops
Ranching
capital-intensive agriculture
Grain
31. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
Labor-intensive agriculture
Spring wheat
Pasture
Subsistence agriculture
32. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Labor-intensive agriculture
Industrial Revolution
Paddy
Double cropping
33. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Intensive cultivation
Commercial agriculture
Shifting cultivation
Subsistence agriculture
34. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Swidden
Winter wheat
Hull
Pastoralism
35. The period of time in 17th and 18th century Europe where farming underwent significant changes. Tools and equipment were modified. Methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting improved. The general organization of agricult
Second Agricultural Revolution
capital-intensive agriculture
Seed agriculture
Chaff
36. The process of urban areas expanding outwards - usually in the form of suburbs - and developing over fertile agricultural land
Urban sprawl
Seed agriculture
Topsoil loss
Chaff
37. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Winter wheat
Shifting cultivation
agricultural origin
animal domestication
38. Agricultural hearth
Thresh
von Thunen Model
agricultural origin
Animal husbandry
39. The technique of separating metals from ores.
Animal husbandry
Salinization
agribusiness
metallurgy
40. Form of agriculture that uses mechanical goods such as machinery - tools - vehicles - and facilities to produce large amounts of agricultural goods - a process requiring very little human labor
Crop
capital-intensive agriculture
Double cropping
Shifting cultivation
41. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
plant domestication
Sustainable agriculture
agribusiness
Plantation
42. Foods that are mostly products of organisms that have had their genes altered in a laboratory for specific purposes - such as disease resistance - increased productivity - or nutritional value allowing growers greater control - predictability - and e
Cereal grain
Genetically modified foods
Ranching
Urban sprawl
43. The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
Agriculture
luxury crops
Wet rice
capital-intensive agriculture
44. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Chaff
Crop
Pastoral nomadian
Transhumance
45. Malay word for wet rice - commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
organic agriculture
Ranching
Paddy
Plantation
46. Degradation of land - especially in semiarid areas - primarily because of human actions like excessive crop platning - animal grazing - and tree cutting
Sawah
Desertification
Third Agricultural Revolution
plant domestication
47. A grass yielding grain for food
Commercial agriculture
Ridge tillage
Cereal grain
Agriculture
48. The period of time approximately 250 years after the start of the Second Agricultural Revolution continuing into the present - with three distinctive features. The lines distinguishing agriculture as primary - secondary - and tertiary activities are
Third Agricultural Revolution
Hull
Plantation
extensive agriculture
49. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
Crop
Fertile Crescent
Agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
50. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Horticulture
Milkshed
Pesticides
Winter wheat