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