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Agriculture Vocab
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1. A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period
Sustainable agriculture
Shifting cultivation
Wet rice
Prime agricultural alnd
2. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
Vegetative planting
Swidden
agribusiness
Salinization
3. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
mechanization
Shifting cultivation
agricultural origin
plant domestication
4. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Fertile Crescent
Shifting cultivation
Animal husbandry
Chaff
5. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
animal domestication
Cereal grain
Green Revolution
Transhumance
6. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
Chaff
Reaper
von Thunen Model
Crop rotation
7. Commercial gardening and fruit farming - so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
Truck farming
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Animal husbandry
Urban sprawl
8. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Subsistence agriculture
Salinization
plantation agriculture
Genetically modified foods
9. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Combine
Milkshed
Fertile Crescent
Wet rice
10. Agricultural hearth
Reaper
Fertile Crescent
agricultural origin
Pesticides
11. A flooded field for growing rice
Commercial agriculture
Milkshed
Sawah
First Agricultural Revolution
12. Degradation of land - especially in semiarid areas - primarily because of human actions like excessive crop platning - animal grazing - and tree cutting
Transhumance
Desertification
luxury crops
Grain
13. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Labor-intensive agriculture
von Thunen Model
Winnow
Double cropping
14. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
Seed agriculture
Wet rice
Pesticides
Truck farming
15. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Ranching
agribusiness
Desertification
Pastoralism
16. Type of specialized farming occuring only in the areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails along the shores of the Mediterranean sea
Crop
Mediterranean agriculture
Sustainable agriculture
Second Agricultural Revolution
17. 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
Crop
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Milkshed
18. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
Green Revolution
Grain
Subsistence agriculture
extensive agriculture
19. To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
Thunian patterns
Planned agricultural economy
metallurgy
Thresh
20. The outer covering of a seed
Desertification
capital-intensive agriculture
agribusiness
Hull
21. Malay word for wet rice - commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
Shifting cultivation
Crop
Paddy
Spring wheat
22. 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
Agriculture
Horticulture
Intensive subsistence agriculture
luxury crops
23. An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution
Thunian patterns
Planned agricultural economy
Second Agricultural Revolution
agribusiness
24. An agricultural model that spatially describes agricultural activities in terms of rent. Activities that require intensive cultivation and cannot be transported over great distances pay higher rent to be close to the market. Conversely - activities t
Specialty crops
von Thunen Model
Thresh
Commercial agriculture
25. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Pastoral nomadian
Winter wheat
Ridge tillage
26. 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
Vegetative planting
Topsoil loss
Salinization
Animal husbandry
27. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Animal husbandry
Truck farming
Commercial agriculture
agricultural origin
28. The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
Agriculture
Horticulture
Chaff
Swidden
29. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
Winnow
Salinization
Milkshed
feedlots
30. Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals - as well as land used for grazing
animal domestication
Pasture
metallurgy
mechanization
31. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
Green Revolution
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Crop rotation
biotechnology
32. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Seed agriculture
Third Agricultural Revolution
Combine
extensive agriculture
33. 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
Topsoil loss
Shifting cultivation
Combine
Horticulture
34. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
plantation agriculture
Thresh
Agriculture
Combine
35. When cash crops are grown on large estates
Third Agricultural Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Wet rice
plantation agriculture
36. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
Thresh
Spring wheat
plantation agriculture
Prime agricultural alnd
37. 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
First Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Intensive subsistence agriculture
38. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
Winter wheat
metallurgy
luxury crops
Crop rotation
39. A grass yielding grain for food
Cereal grain
biotechnology
extensive agriculture
Horticulture
40. The process of urban areas expanding outwards - usually in the form of suburbs - and developing over fertile agricultural land
Urban sprawl
Winnow
Third Agricultural Revolution
Desertification
41. 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
Second Agricultural Revolution
capital-intensive agriculture
feedlots
Thresh
42. Another name for shifting cultivation - so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
Fertile Crescent
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Pesticides
agricultural origin
43. The growing of fruits - vegetables - and flowers
Horticulture
Second Agricultural Revolution
Thunian patterns
Pastoral nomadian
44. Seed of a cereal grain
Second Agricultural Revolution
Thresh
Grain
Chaff
45. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants
animal domestication
Pasture
Vegetative planting
Thunian patterns
46. 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
biotechnology
agricultural origin
Genetically modified foods
Transhumance
47. Crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides or fertilizers
Paddy
Genetically modified foods
Planned agricultural economy
organic agriculture
48. System of planting crops on ridge tops - in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
Commercial agriculture
Pesticides
Ridge tillage
Intensive subsistence agriculture
49. 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
Desertification
Labor-intensive agriculture
Fertile Crescent
capital-intensive agriculture
50. The most productive farmland
Thunian patterns
Horticulture
Sawah
Prime agricultural alnd