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Agriculture Vocab
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1. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
Winnow
metallurgy
Cereal grain
Crop
2. 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
Reaper
Spring wheat
Shifting cultivation
Seed agriculture
3. In agriculture - the replacement of human labor with technology or machines
Mediterranean agriculture
mechanization
Thresh
Spring wheat
4. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Industrial Revolution
Horticulture
mechanization
Green Revolution
5. The technique of separating metals from ores.
Labor-intensive agriculture
metallurgy
Wet rice
Paddy
6. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
Winter wheat
Agriculture
Combine
Double cropping
7. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
Milkshed
Spring wheat
Wet rice
animal domestication
8. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Chaff
Swidden
Winter wheat
Paddy
9. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Crop rotation
Desertification
Pastoral nomadian
Salinization
10. An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals - such as cattle - horses - sheep - and goats
Wet rice
Mediterranean agriculture
Animal husbandry
Thunian patterns
11. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
Prime agricultural alnd
agribusiness
Labor-intensive agriculture
luxury crops
12. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Fertile Crescent
Animal husbandry
animal domestication
mechanization
13. 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.
Intensive cultivation
First Agricultural Revolution
organic agriculture
Green Revolution
14. 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
Salinization
Slash-and-burn agriculture
capital-intensive agriculture
Truck farming
15. When cash crops are grown on large estates
Specialty crops
Animal husbandry
plantation agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
16. A grass yielding grain for food
Pastoralism
Thresh
Cereal grain
Plantation
17. Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals - as well as land used for grazing
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Green Revolution
Plantation
Pasture
18. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Grain
Transhumance
Milkshed
Intensive cultivation
19. 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
agricultural origin
Thresh
Cereal grain
20. 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
biotechnology
Desertification
Pastoral nomadian
Wet rice
21. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
Reaper
Horticulture
Swidden
Cereal grain
22. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Seed agriculture
metallurgy
Prime agricultural alnd
Sawah
23. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
Crop rotation
Thresh
Milkshed
Ridge tillage
24. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
Transhumance
Reaper
Pastoralism
luxury crops
25. 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
Second Agricultural Revolution
Pastoral nomadian
plantation agriculture
26. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
organic agriculture
plantation agriculture
Thunian patterns
Second Agricultural Revolution
27. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Crop
Plantation
Specialty crops
Transhumance
28. Agricultural hearth
feedlots
Commercial agriculture
agricultural origin
Transhumance
29. Seed of a cereal grain
Winter wheat
Wet rice
Reaper
Grain
30. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Winter wheat
Ranching
Industrial Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
31. A flooded field for growing rice
Sawah
Paddy
Vegetative planting
organic agriculture
32. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
Winter wheat
Plantation
Winnow
metallurgy
33. 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
plant domestication
Planned agricultural economy
Ranching
34. 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
organic agriculture
Desertification
feedlots
von Thunen Model
35. Commercial gardening and fruit farming - so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
Salinization
Truck farming
Second Agricultural Revolution
Thresh
36. 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
Sawah
Seed agriculture
Topsoil loss
Fertile Crescent
37. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Commercial agriculture
Reaper
Chaff
Winter wheat
38. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Pasture
capital-intensive agriculture
Second Agricultural Revolution
Milkshed
39. 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
agribusiness
Pastoral nomadian
Industrial Revolution
Pesticides
40. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
Hull
Spring wheat
Wet rice
Genetically modified foods
41. System of planting crops on ridge tops - in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
Ridge tillage
plant domestication
Genetically modified foods
agricultural origin
42. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
Labor-intensive agriculture
Thunian patterns
Planned agricultural economy
Double cropping
43. Type of specialized farming occuring only in the areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails along the shores of the Mediterranean sea
Fertile Crescent
biotechnology
Sustainable agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
44. Malay word for wet rice - commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
Topsoil loss
Paddy
Pesticides
Cereal grain
45. 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
Planned agricultural economy
Ranching
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Swidden
46. The most productive farmland
Ranching
Prime agricultural alnd
Grain
Topsoil loss
47. Crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides or fertilizers
organic agriculture
Desertification
Winter wheat
Grain
48. 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
Ridge tillage
First Agricultural Revolution
Reaper
Sustainable agriculture
49. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Subsistence agriculture
Planned agricultural economy
Mediterranean agriculture
Grain
50. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Reaper
Prime agricultural alnd
plant domestication
luxury crops