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Agriculture Vocab
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1. 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
Thunian patterns
Industrial Revolution
Wet rice
2. An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals - such as cattle - horses - sheep - and goats
Animal husbandry
Green Revolution
Double cropping
Pastoralism
3. 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.
organic agriculture
First Agricultural Revolution
Winter wheat
Urban sprawl
4. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
Commercial agriculture
Seed agriculture
luxury crops
Swidden
5. Malay word for wet rice - commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
Cereal grain
Grain
Paddy
Vegetative planting
6. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
Milkshed
Third Agricultural Revolution
agribusiness
Subsistence agriculture
7. Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield
Intensive cultivation
feedlots
First Agricultural Revolution
Shifting cultivation
8. 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
Spring wheat
capital-intensive agriculture
Pastoral nomadian
Pesticides
9. A grass yielding grain for food
Industrial Revolution
Agriculture
Reaper
Cereal grain
10. 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
Thresh
Mediterranean agriculture
Urban sprawl
Shifting cultivation
11. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
mechanization
Industrial Revolution
Genetically modified foods
Double cropping
12. Agricultural hearth
agricultural origin
Ridge tillage
Industrial Revolution
plantation agriculture
13. To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
Truck farming
Commercial agriculture
Pasture
Thresh
14. Type of specialized farming occuring only in the areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails along the shores of the Mediterranean sea
Mediterranean agriculture
animal domestication
Pastoral nomadian
mechanization
15. 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
metallurgy
plantation agriculture
Salinization
Winter wheat
16. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
biotechnology
Chaff
Genetically modified foods
Swidden
17. 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
luxury crops
Winter wheat
feedlots
Topsoil loss
18. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
metallurgy
Transhumance
Subsistence agriculture
Reaper
19. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
plantation agriculture
plant domestication
Salinization
Crop
20. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Wet rice
Milkshed
biotechnology
Agriculture
21. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Thresh
Shifting cultivation
Ranching
Sawah
22. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
Winnow
Desertification
agribusiness
Wet rice
23. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
Salinization
Winnow
extensive agriculture
Spring wheat
24. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Prime agricultural alnd
Winter wheat
Transhumance
Vegetative planting
25. Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants - but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who ingest the chemicals
Industrial Revolution
Combine
Animal husbandry
Pesticides
26. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Chaff
Vegetative planting
Subsistence agriculture
Paddy
27. 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
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
agribusiness
feedlots
28. 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
Genetically modified foods
Planned agricultural economy
Green Revolution
Winter wheat
29. The growing of fruits - vegetables - and flowers
Pasture
Labor-intensive agriculture
Horticulture
Crop
30. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
Truck farming
Crop rotation
Wet rice
Ridge tillage
31. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants
Mediterranean agriculture
Sustainable agriculture
Swidden
Vegetative planting
32. Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals - as well as land used for grazing
Pasture
Horticulture
Third Agricultural Revolution
Ranching
33. Degradation of land - especially in semiarid areas - primarily because of human actions like excessive crop platning - animal grazing - and tree cutting
Horticulture
Desertification
von Thunen Model
agribusiness
34. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
animal domestication
feedlots
Salinization
Commercial agriculture
35. Another name for shifting cultivation - so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Second Agricultural Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Labor-intensive agriculture
36. An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution
Pastoral nomadian
Planned agricultural economy
Wet rice
capital-intensive agriculture
37. 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
Winter wheat
biotechnology
Combine
Thresh
38. In agriculture - the replacement of human labor with technology or machines
Industrial Revolution
mechanization
Plantation
Grain
39. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
Pasture
Hull
Swidden
Labor-intensive agriculture
40. 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
organic agriculture
Sustainable agriculture
Vegetative planting
von Thunen Model
41. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
Mediterranean agriculture
metallurgy
extensive agriculture
Slash-and-burn agriculture
42. Commercial gardening and fruit farming - so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
feedlots
Truck farming
Genetically modified foods
Reaper
43. Seed of a cereal grain
Grain
organic agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
Industrial Revolution
44. 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
Grain
Commercial agriculture
Pasture
45. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
biotechnology
Crop
Chaff
Double cropping
46. Crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides or fertilizers
Seed agriculture
Winnow
Grain
organic agriculture
47. The technique of separating metals from ores.
Pastoralism
metallurgy
Pastoral nomadian
Mediterranean agriculture
48. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Thunian patterns
Cereal grain
Green Revolution
plant domestication
49. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Mediterranean agriculture
Slash-and-burn agriculture
mechanization
animal domestication
50. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
Pesticides
Combine
Labor-intensive agriculture
Pasture