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