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Agriculture Vocab
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1. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Thresh
Paddy
Sawah
Pastoral nomadian
2. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
mechanization
organic agriculture
von Thunen Model
Double cropping
3. 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
Desertification
Agriculture
Genetically modified foods
Planned agricultural economy
4. Crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides or fertilizers
Crop
Double cropping
agribusiness
organic agriculture
5. The rapid economic changes that occurred in agriculture and manufacturing in England in the late 18th century and that rapidly spread to other parts of the developed world
Industrial Revolution
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Green Revolution
Double cropping
6. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
Shifting cultivation
Transhumance
extensive agriculture
Reaper
7. Another name for shifting cultivation - so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
Agriculture
Sawah
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Ranching
8. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
biotechnology
Cereal grain
Swidden
Crop rotation
9. 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
Second Agricultural Revolution
Commercial agriculture
Plantation
Cereal grain
10. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Animal husbandry
Hull
Commercial agriculture
Second Agricultural Revolution
11. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
agricultural origin
Desertification
plant domestication
First Agricultural Revolution
12. The most productive farmland
Winter wheat
Prime agricultural alnd
Wet rice
Truck farming
13. When cash crops are grown on large estates
organic agriculture
Thresh
plantation agriculture
Sustainable agriculture
14. 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
mechanization
biotechnology
Green Revolution
Double cropping
15. 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.
Seed agriculture
First Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
Reaper
16. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
biotechnology
von Thunen Model
Seed agriculture
Winter wheat
17. The outer covering of a seed
Pasture
plant domestication
Hull
Thresh
18. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
Animal husbandry
Prime agricultural alnd
Ranching
Labor-intensive agriculture
19. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
Crop
Prime agricultural alnd
Winter wheat
Sustainable agriculture
20. The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
Genetically modified foods
Thresh
Salinization
Agriculture
21. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
Intensive cultivation
agribusiness
feedlots
Wet rice
22. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Crop
Pastoralism
Truck farming
Winter wheat
23. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
Paddy
Seed agriculture
Green Revolution
Thunian patterns
24. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Swidden
Prime agricultural alnd
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Chaff
25. Commercial gardening and fruit farming - so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
Truck farming
capital-intensive agriculture
Seed agriculture
Genetically modified foods
26. Places where livestock are concentrated in a very small area and raised on hormones and hearty grains that prepare them for slaughter at a much more rapid rate
feedlots
Industrial Revolution
biotechnology
Intensive cultivation
27. 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
Milkshed
Second Agricultural Revolution
Truck farming
Intensive subsistence agriculture
28. Malay word for wet rice - commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
metallurgy
Paddy
Swidden
Pastoral nomadian
29. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
Combine
Thresh
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Winter wheat
30. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
organic agriculture
Wet rice
Green Revolution
animal domestication
31. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Sustainable agriculture
Winter wheat
Ranching
Reaper
32. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Labor-intensive agriculture
mechanization
Subsistence agriculture
Plantation
33. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Pastoralism
Pesticides
agribusiness
34. Seed of a cereal grain
Grain
capital-intensive agriculture
agribusiness
Thresh
35. 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
Topsoil loss
Sustainable agriculture
Third Agricultural Revolution
Industrial Revolution
36. Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals - as well as land used for grazing
capital-intensive agriculture
Pesticides
Pasture
Sawah
37. Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield
Second Agricultural Revolution
Reaper
Vegetative planting
Intensive cultivation
38. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Agriculture
Milkshed
Truck farming
Horticulture
39. System of planting crops on ridge tops - in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
Specialty crops
Ridge tillage
Green Revolution
Animal husbandry
40. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Specialty crops
organic agriculture
Labor-intensive agriculture
First Agricultural Revolution
41. 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
organic agriculture
Subsistence agriculture
agricultural origin
Sustainable agriculture
42. The technique of separating metals from ores.
metallurgy
Salinization
Plantation
extensive agriculture
43. Degradation of land - especially in semiarid areas - primarily because of human actions like excessive crop platning - animal grazing - and tree cutting
Desertification
animal domestication
Industrial Revolution
Sawah
44. An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals - such as cattle - horses - sheep - and goats
Winter wheat
Spring wheat
Prime agricultural alnd
Animal husbandry
45. Area located in the crescent-shaped zone near the southeastern Mediterranean coast (including Iraq - Syria - Lebanon - and Turkey) - which was once a lush environment and one of the first hearths of domestication and thus agricultural activity
Planned agricultural economy
Subsistence agriculture
Fertile Crescent
Reaper
46. Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants - but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who ingest the chemicals
Wet rice
Truck farming
Winnow
Pesticides
47. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Thresh
plant domestication
Pastoralism
Subsistence agriculture
48. The growing of fruits - vegetables - and flowers
Agriculture
Horticulture
Milkshed
Swidden
49. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Specialty crops
animal domestication
von Thunen Model
Prime agricultural alnd
50. 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
Seed agriculture
Salinization
Milkshed
Intensive subsistence agriculture
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