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Agriculture Vocab
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1. The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
Intensive cultivation
Commercial agriculture
biotechnology
Agriculture
2. The most productive farmland
metallurgy
animal domestication
Second Agricultural Revolution
Prime agricultural alnd
3. 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
Paddy
plant domestication
Thresh
4. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Transhumance
Horticulture
Fertile Crescent
Spring wheat
5. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
Thunian patterns
Specialty crops
Winnow
Combine
6. 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
capital-intensive agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
Third Agricultural Revolution
Paddy
7. Malay word for wet rice - commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
Paddy
Pasture
Sawah
Grain
8. Crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides or fertilizers
organic agriculture
Thunian patterns
mechanization
Crop
9. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
extensive agriculture
Third Agricultural Revolution
Seed agriculture
Green Revolution
10. System of planting crops on ridge tops - in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
Intensive cultivation
Shifting cultivation
Ridge tillage
capital-intensive agriculture
11. An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution
Fertile Crescent
Labor-intensive agriculture
Planned agricultural economy
Crop
12. 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
von Thunen Model
biotechnology
Ranching
Planned agricultural economy
13. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Winter wheat
Transhumance
Urban sprawl
Intensive subsistence agriculture
14. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
biotechnology
metallurgy
Thunian patterns
Spring wheat
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
Intensive subsistence agriculture
agricultural origin
animal domestication
Agriculture
16. The technique of separating metals from ores.
Topsoil loss
Agriculture
metallurgy
Desertification
17. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Horticulture
animal domestication
mechanization
Thresh
18. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
Vegetative planting
Specialty crops
Wet rice
biotechnology
19. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Chaff
Specialty crops
Genetically modified foods
Industrial Revolution
20. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Reaper
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Crop
Pastoral nomadian
21. 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
Ranching
Pastoral nomadian
von Thunen Model
Swidden
22. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Vegetative planting
Specialty crops
Intensive subsistence agriculture
mechanization
23. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Green Revolution
Urban sprawl
Thresh
organic agriculture
24. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
plantation agriculture
Thunian patterns
plant domestication
Salinization
25. 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
Reaper
Crop rotation
Second Agricultural Revolution
Plantation
26. 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
Pastoralism
Salinization
Thunian patterns
Genetically modified foods
27. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Subsistence agriculture
Truck farming
Labor-intensive agriculture
Plantation
28. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
luxury crops
Specialty crops
Swidden
Pesticides
29. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
Pastoral nomadian
Crop rotation
plant domestication
Winnow
30. Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants - but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who ingest the chemicals
Double cropping
Pesticides
Green Revolution
Reaper
31. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
Sustainable agriculture
capital-intensive agriculture
agribusiness
Thresh
32. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Crop
Double cropping
Agriculture
Salinization
33. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Hull
Ranching
Shifting cultivation
mechanization
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
Mediterranean agriculture
Third Agricultural Revolution
Milkshed
35. Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield
Intensive cultivation
Crop
Spring wheat
extensive agriculture
36. Seed of a cereal grain
Grain
Prime agricultural alnd
Fertile Crescent
luxury crops
37. 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
agricultural origin
Mediterranean agriculture
Spring wheat
38. To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
plant domestication
Horticulture
Milkshed
Thresh
39. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Sustainable agriculture
Milkshed
feedlots
extensive agriculture
40. The process of urban areas expanding outwards - usually in the form of suburbs - and developing over fertile agricultural land
Vegetative planting
Pesticides
extensive agriculture
Urban sprawl
41. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Seed agriculture
Sustainable agriculture
capital-intensive agriculture
Planned agricultural economy
42. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
Crop
Combine
Animal husbandry
Double cropping
43. Agricultural hearth
Thunian patterns
animal domestication
agricultural origin
Topsoil loss
44. Another name for shifting cultivation - so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Labor-intensive agriculture
Hull
Thresh
45. A grass yielding grain for food
Cereal grain
Salinization
biotechnology
Prime agricultural alnd
46. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
Agriculture
Urban sprawl
Vegetative planting
Labor-intensive agriculture
47. 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
Seed agriculture
Crop rotation
Winnow
Industrial Revolution
48. 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
Shifting cultivation
Double cropping
Cereal grain
Wet rice
49. 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
Ranching
agricultural origin
Slash-and-burn agriculture
feedlots
50. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Crop rotation
Pesticides
Pastoralism
Second Agricultural Revolution