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