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