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Agriculture Vocab
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1. When cash crops are grown on large estates
animal domestication
metallurgy
Salinization
plantation agriculture
2. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
Pasture
Spring wheat
Horticulture
capital-intensive agriculture
3. The process of urban areas expanding outwards - usually in the form of suburbs - and developing over fertile agricultural land
animal domestication
Crop rotation
Urban sprawl
Topsoil loss
4. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
Wet rice
feedlots
metallurgy
luxury crops
5. 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
Topsoil loss
biotechnology
von Thunen Model
Horticulture
6. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Fertile Crescent
organic agriculture
Double cropping
Plantation
7. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
Combine
Spring wheat
agricultural origin
Milkshed
8. A flooded field for growing rice
animal domestication
Prime agricultural alnd
Genetically modified foods
Sawah
9. Seed of a cereal grain
Pastoral nomadian
Prime agricultural alnd
Spring wheat
Grain
10. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Horticulture
Desertification
Commercial agriculture
Shifting cultivation
11. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Chaff
Transhumance
Winter wheat
Paddy
12. 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
feedlots
Pesticides
Crop
13. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Ranching
Transhumance
metallurgy
14. 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
Subsistence agriculture
Paddy
Third Agricultural Revolution
plant domestication
15. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Seed agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Ridge tillage
16. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Specialty crops
organic agriculture
Crop rotation
Double cropping
17. System of planting crops on ridge tops - in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
Ridge tillage
animal domestication
Topsoil loss
extensive agriculture
18. The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
Milkshed
capital-intensive agriculture
metallurgy
Agriculture
19. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Transhumance
Animal husbandry
agricultural origin
Pastoralism
20. 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
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Swidden
Wet rice
feedlots
21. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
Salinization
Cereal grain
Chaff
Thunian patterns
22. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
Plantation
Commercial agriculture
agribusiness
Salinization
23. 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
Double cropping
capital-intensive agriculture
Shifting cultivation
Salinization
24. To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
Seed agriculture
Thresh
Pasture
Vegetative planting
25. The outer covering of a seed
Hull
Pastoralism
Vegetative planting
Plantation
26. Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield
agribusiness
plantation agriculture
Commercial agriculture
Intensive cultivation
27. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
Winnow
Commercial agriculture
Agriculture
Crop
28. Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals - as well as land used for grazing
animal domestication
Fertile Crescent
Pasture
capital-intensive agriculture
29. 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
Mediterranean agriculture
Cereal grain
Combine
Topsoil loss
30. A grass yielding grain for food
Pastoralism
Pesticides
Cereal grain
Topsoil loss
31. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Green Revolution
Thunian patterns
organic agriculture
Subsistence agriculture
32. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Subsistence agriculture
Milkshed
Cereal grain
Agriculture
33. 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
Topsoil loss
Shifting cultivation
Cereal grain
Winter wheat
34. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Wet rice
Chaff
Paddy
Reaper
35. Commercial gardening and fruit farming - so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
Grain
Ridge tillage
Ranching
Truck farming
36. 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
Milkshed
Second Agricultural Revolution
Ranching
Subsistence agriculture
37. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
Winnow
Mediterranean agriculture
Commercial agriculture
Shifting cultivation
38. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
Subsistence agriculture
Wet rice
Horticulture
Crop rotation
39. Degradation of land - especially in semiarid areas - primarily because of human actions like excessive crop platning - animal grazing - and tree cutting
Desertification
Ridge tillage
Shifting cultivation
Horticulture
40. 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
capital-intensive agriculture
agricultural origin
Truck farming
Third Agricultural Revolution
41. 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.
Genetically modified foods
Milkshed
Intensive subsistence agriculture
First Agricultural Revolution
42. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Subsistence agriculture
agribusiness
Crop
Specialty crops
43. Crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides or fertilizers
Winter wheat
organic agriculture
Thresh
Subsistence agriculture
44. Type of specialized farming occuring only in the areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails along the shores of the Mediterranean sea
Crop rotation
Mediterranean agriculture
Truck farming
Prime agricultural alnd
45. The most productive farmland
Shifting cultivation
Cereal grain
Prime agricultural alnd
luxury crops
46. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Specialty crops
Pastoral nomadian
Urban sprawl
Reaper
47. 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
Green Revolution
Fertile Crescent
Slash-and-burn agriculture
agricultural origin
48. Malay word for wet rice - commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
Cereal grain
Paddy
Second Agricultural Revolution
Truck farming
49. An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution
Topsoil loss
Planned agricultural economy
Urban sprawl
Thresh
50. 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
biotechnology
Reaper
Industrial Revolution
Planned agricultural economy