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