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Agriculture Vocab
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1. Type of specialized farming occuring only in the areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails along the shores of the Mediterranean sea
capital-intensive agriculture
plantation agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
extensive agriculture
2. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Specialty crops
Third Agricultural Revolution
Ranching
Reaper
3. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Thresh
Green Revolution
Ranching
Urban sprawl
4. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Vegetative planting
luxury crops
Double cropping
Reaper
5. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Desertification
Reaper
Pastoral nomadian
Industrial Revolution
6. Degradation of land - especially in semiarid areas - primarily because of human actions like excessive crop platning - animal grazing - and tree cutting
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Crop rotation
Pasture
Desertification
7. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
metallurgy
animal domestication
Crop
Transhumance
8. 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
Genetically modified foods
plant domestication
biotechnology
Mediterranean agriculture
9. 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
Pasture
Pastoralism
Milkshed
Genetically modified foods
10. When cash crops are grown on large estates
Urban sprawl
von Thunen Model
plantation agriculture
Subsistence agriculture
11. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
Spring wheat
Intensive cultivation
Pastoral nomadian
Wet rice
12. Another name for shifting cultivation - so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
Truck farming
Slash-and-burn agriculture
luxury crops
Intensive cultivation
13. Agricultural hearth
Salinization
agricultural origin
Agriculture
metallurgy
14. In agriculture - the replacement of human labor with technology or machines
Double cropping
Desertification
mechanization
extensive agriculture
15. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
Winnow
Intensive cultivation
Third Agricultural Revolution
agribusiness
16. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
Wet rice
Cereal grain
Commercial agriculture
Chaff
17. 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
Agriculture
Double cropping
Cereal grain
Sustainable agriculture
18. 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
Thresh
Transhumance
Third Agricultural Revolution
extensive agriculture
19. 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
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Grain
von Thunen Model
Thunian patterns
20. Seed of a cereal grain
Industrial Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Wet rice
Grain
21. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
Sawah
Pesticides
biotechnology
Labor-intensive agriculture
22. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Milkshed
Chaff
Thunian patterns
Subsistence agriculture
23. The growing of fruits - vegetables - and flowers
First Agricultural Revolution
Horticulture
agricultural origin
Winnow
24. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Winter wheat
Crop rotation
biotechnology
Grain
25. 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
Winter wheat
Grain
Double cropping
26. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
Winter wheat
Crop
extensive agriculture
Cereal grain
27. The process of urban areas expanding outwards - usually in the form of suburbs - and developing over fertile agricultural land
Urban sprawl
Specialty crops
Cereal grain
organic agriculture
28. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
capital-intensive agriculture
Pastoral nomadian
Crop rotation
Shifting cultivation
29. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Spring wheat
plant domestication
Wet rice
Pasture
30. To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
Prime agricultural alnd
extensive agriculture
Ridge tillage
Thresh
31. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Pesticides
Transhumance
Thresh
organic agriculture
32. The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
organic agriculture
feedlots
mechanization
Agriculture
33. 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
Third Agricultural Revolution
Salinization
Green Revolution
Pesticides
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
Third Agricultural Revolution
feedlots
Salinization
Specialty crops
35. The outer covering of a seed
Sustainable agriculture
Ridge tillage
Crop
Hull
36. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Subsistence agriculture
Salinization
Horticulture
Desertification
37. System of planting crops on ridge tops - in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
Agriculture
Spring wheat
Topsoil loss
Ridge tillage
38. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
Combine
organic agriculture
Pastoralism
Paddy
39. The technique of separating metals from ores.
Double cropping
von Thunen Model
metallurgy
Thresh
40. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
agribusiness
Pesticides
Swidden
Thunian patterns
41. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
Sawah
Spring wheat
luxury crops
Subsistence agriculture
42. 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
Pasture
Plantation
Third Agricultural Revolution
Prime agricultural alnd
43. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Double cropping
Urban sprawl
Pastoralism
Slash-and-burn agriculture
44. 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
Pasture
agribusiness
Shifting cultivation
Planned agricultural economy
45. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
Pasture
Thunian patterns
Fertile Crescent
Topsoil loss
46. 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
Spring wheat
Ranching
Industrial Revolution
Subsistence agriculture
47. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Milkshed
Thunian patterns
Paddy
von Thunen Model
48. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants
Sawah
Agriculture
Vegetative planting
Labor-intensive agriculture
49. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
von Thunen Model
capital-intensive agriculture
Reaper
feedlots
50. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Second Agricultural Revolution
animal domestication
Reaper
Specialty crops