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Agriculture Vocab
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1. An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals - such as cattle - horses - sheep - and goats
Animal husbandry
luxury crops
mechanization
Second Agricultural Revolution
2. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Subsistence agriculture
Labor-intensive agriculture
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Intensive cultivation
3. 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
Mediterranean agriculture
Combine
biotechnology
Planned agricultural economy
4. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Pasture
Paddy
Double cropping
Genetically modified foods
5. A flooded field for growing rice
Ranching
agribusiness
Sawah
animal domestication
6. The growing of fruits - vegetables - and flowers
Second Agricultural Revolution
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Horticulture
Desertification
7. 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.
Double cropping
First Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
extensive agriculture
8. 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
Agriculture
extensive agriculture
capital-intensive agriculture
Commercial agriculture
9. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
plant domestication
Fertile Crescent
Wet rice
Second Agricultural Revolution
10. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
luxury crops
Chaff
Combine
Prime agricultural alnd
11. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
Spring wheat
Industrial Revolution
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Shifting cultivation
12. 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
Animal husbandry
Paddy
Industrial Revolution
Mediterranean agriculture
13. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
biotechnology
Thresh
Labor-intensive agriculture
Crop
14. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Green Revolution
Agriculture
Genetically modified foods
Vegetative planting
15. 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
Cereal grain
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
Thunian patterns
16. When cash crops are grown on large estates
mechanization
Winnow
plantation agriculture
Commercial agriculture
17. 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
Chaff
von Thunen Model
Grain
Crop
18. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
Milkshed
Crop rotation
Mediterranean agriculture
metallurgy
19. The technique of separating metals from ores.
Industrial Revolution
metallurgy
Truck farming
Specialty crops
20. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Specialty crops
Second Agricultural Revolution
feedlots
Winnow
21. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Commercial agriculture
agribusiness
Pastoral nomadian
Crop rotation
22. 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
Hull
Shifting cultivation
Agriculture
biotechnology
23. Crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides or fertilizers
biotechnology
organic agriculture
Commercial agriculture
mechanization
24. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
biotechnology
Thresh
Commercial agriculture
agribusiness
25. The most productive farmland
Milkshed
Prime agricultural alnd
organic agriculture
Crop rotation
26. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
First Agricultural Revolution
Pasture
biotechnology
Combine
27. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Seed agriculture
Pasture
Truck farming
Milkshed
28. 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
mechanization
Swidden
Paddy
29. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
Third Agricultural Revolution
Swidden
Thunian patterns
animal domestication
30. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
extensive agriculture
Ranching
Spring wheat
Seed agriculture
31. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
luxury crops
plantation agriculture
Animal husbandry
Double cropping
32. In agriculture - the replacement of human labor with technology or machines
capital-intensive agriculture
Genetically modified foods
Specialty crops
mechanization
33. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
Second Agricultural Revolution
Crop
Ridge tillage
mechanization
34. Another name for shifting cultivation - so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
Salinization
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Winnow
Animal husbandry
35. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
biotechnology
feedlots
Subsistence agriculture
Reaper
36. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Swidden
biotechnology
Vegetative planting
Pastoralism
37. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
Transhumance
Cereal grain
38. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Ridge tillage
Crop
Ranching
Subsistence agriculture
39. A grass yielding grain for food
Pastoralism
Cereal grain
Genetically modified foods
Slash-and-burn agriculture
40. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Pastoral nomadian
Topsoil loss
Subsistence agriculture
Fertile Crescent
41. 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
Crop
Plantation
Specialty crops
Second Agricultural Revolution
42. 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
Truck farming
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Topsoil loss
Pasture
43. 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
Grain
First Agricultural Revolution
Sustainable agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
44. 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
Agriculture
mechanization
Green Revolution
45. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Winter wheat
Thunian patterns
biotechnology
Labor-intensive agriculture
46. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Milkshed
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Horticulture
Reaper
47. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
Winnow
Swidden
Pasture
Genetically modified foods
48. Seed of a cereal grain
Grain
mechanization
agribusiness
Chaff
49. 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
Transhumance
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Fertile Crescent
Paddy
50. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Truck farming
animal domestication
Fertile Crescent
agricultural origin