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Agriculture Vocab
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1. Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants - but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who ingest the chemicals
Pesticides
Subsistence agriculture
Ranching
Milkshed
2. The outer covering of a seed
extensive agriculture
Hull
feedlots
Specialty crops
3. Malay word for wet rice - commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
Transhumance
Plantation
Paddy
plantation agriculture
4. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Sustainable agriculture
animal domestication
Seed agriculture
Reaper
5. The process of urban areas expanding outwards - usually in the form of suburbs - and developing over fertile agricultural land
plant domestication
agricultural origin
Urban sprawl
Transhumance
6. 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
Chaff
Commercial agriculture
Salinization
Shifting cultivation
7. A grass yielding grain for food
Cereal grain
capital-intensive agriculture
Fertile Crescent
Seed agriculture
8. In agriculture - the replacement of human labor with technology or machines
mechanization
Pastoral nomadian
organic agriculture
Swidden
9. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
Thunian patterns
Chaff
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Subsistence agriculture
10. 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
Thresh
Pastoral nomadian
Crop
biotechnology
11. 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
Animal husbandry
Green Revolution
Commercial agriculture
Salinization
12. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
Spring wheat
Truck farming
Reaper
Topsoil loss
13. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Second Agricultural Revolution
Fertile Crescent
Paddy
Seed agriculture
14. An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals - such as cattle - horses - sheep - and goats
Animal husbandry
luxury crops
Urban sprawl
Winnow
15. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Grain
Transhumance
Third Agricultural Revolution
Animal husbandry
16. 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
Ranching
Second Agricultural Revolution
Desertification
Truck farming
17. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Pastoralism
Winnow
extensive agriculture
Green Revolution
18. 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
Third Agricultural Revolution
Genetically modified foods
Combine
Plantation
19. 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
Grain
Sustainable agriculture
Fertile Crescent
Milkshed
20. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
Animal husbandry
metallurgy
Prime agricultural alnd
luxury crops
21. Agricultural hearth
Subsistence agriculture
agricultural origin
luxury crops
agribusiness
22. System of planting crops on ridge tops - in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
Horticulture
agricultural origin
Ridge tillage
Grain
23. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
Chaff
Winnow
Sawah
Crop rotation
24. 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
Genetically modified foods
Planned agricultural economy
Industrial Revolution
Commercial agriculture
25. The most productive farmland
Winter wheat
Thunian patterns
von Thunen Model
Prime agricultural alnd
26. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
Labor-intensive agriculture
Paddy
Wet rice
Mediterranean agriculture
27. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
Swidden
Cereal grain
Topsoil loss
Double cropping
28. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
Ranching
Commercial agriculture
Spring wheat
plant domestication
29. 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
Intensive cultivation
Winter wheat
Reaper
30. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
Specialty crops
Combine
Truck farming
Wet rice
31. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
Desertification
Crop rotation
Seed agriculture
Spring wheat
32. The technique of separating metals from ores.
metallurgy
Pastoral nomadian
Planned agricultural economy
Combine
33. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
Thresh
Specialty crops
extensive agriculture
Planned agricultural economy
34. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
Desertification
capital-intensive agriculture
Crop
Reaper
35. 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
Sustainable agriculture
Pasture
Thunian patterns
Wet rice
36. 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
Green Revolution
Hull
Crop rotation
Genetically modified foods
37. Type of specialized farming occuring only in the areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails along the shores of the Mediterranean sea
Topsoil loss
Third Agricultural Revolution
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
38. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Planned agricultural economy
Winter wheat
Specialty crops
mechanization
39. Commercial gardening and fruit farming - so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
Truck farming
extensive agriculture
Fertile Crescent
Wet rice
40. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Third Agricultural Revolution
Grain
Urban sprawl
Green Revolution
41. Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield
Winnow
Planned agricultural economy
Genetically modified foods
Intensive cultivation
42. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants
Vegetative planting
plant domestication
luxury crops
Second Agricultural Revolution
43. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Ranching
Seed agriculture
Planned agricultural economy
Milkshed
44. Seed of a cereal grain
Grain
biotechnology
Animal husbandry
capital-intensive agriculture
45. 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.
Pesticides
First Agricultural Revolution
Topsoil loss
Spring wheat
46. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Pastoralism
plant domestication
Crop rotation
Planned agricultural economy
47. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Chaff
metallurgy
Slash-and-burn agriculture
animal domestication
48. A flooded field for growing rice
von Thunen Model
Agriculture
Desertification
Sawah
49. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
agricultural origin
Swidden
Subsistence agriculture
mechanization
50. An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution
Pasture
Specialty crops
luxury crops
Planned agricultural economy