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Agriculture Vocab
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1. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
mechanization
agribusiness
capital-intensive agriculture
Pesticides
2. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Green Revolution
Pastoral nomadian
Specialty crops
Prime agricultural alnd
3. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
Seed agriculture
mechanization
Crop
Desertification
4. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Thresh
Green Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Slash-and-burn agriculture
5. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Urban sprawl
animal domestication
luxury crops
Thresh
6. 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
Labor-intensive agriculture
Fertile Crescent
mechanization
Double cropping
7. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Prime agricultural alnd
Seed agriculture
Cereal grain
agribusiness
8. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Third Agricultural Revolution
Pesticides
plant domestication
Genetically modified foods
9. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
plant domestication
Planned agricultural economy
Double cropping
Swidden
10. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
extensive agriculture
Thunian patterns
Thresh
Combine
11. An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals - such as cattle - horses - sheep - and goats
Crop
Thresh
Animal husbandry
biotechnology
12. 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
Sawah
Grain
capital-intensive agriculture
Seed agriculture
13. In agriculture - the replacement of human labor with technology or machines
agricultural origin
mechanization
von Thunen Model
Thresh
14. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Second Agricultural Revolution
Chaff
Sustainable agriculture
Thresh
15. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
Sawah
Milkshed
Ranching
Reaper
16. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
biotechnology
Chaff
Agriculture
extensive agriculture
17. 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
mechanization
Industrial Revolution
Winnow
Thunian patterns
18. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Fertile Crescent
Commercial agriculture
von Thunen Model
Spring wheat
19. The technique of separating metals from ores.
Reaper
Vegetative planting
Second Agricultural Revolution
metallurgy
20. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
Crop rotation
plantation agriculture
Shifting cultivation
Labor-intensive agriculture
21. 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
capital-intensive agriculture
Thunian patterns
Pasture
Salinization
22. Malay word for wet rice - commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
Paddy
Swidden
Sustainable agriculture
Third Agricultural Revolution
23. 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
Sustainable agriculture
Industrial Revolution
Paddy
Sawah
24. System of planting crops on ridge tops - in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
Ridge tillage
Urban sprawl
Second Agricultural Revolution
Reaper
25. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Double cropping
agricultural origin
Transhumance
animal domestication
26. 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
Industrial Revolution
Shifting cultivation
Prime agricultural alnd
Mediterranean agriculture
27. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
extensive agriculture
Ridge tillage
Thunian patterns
Crop rotation
28. The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
Topsoil loss
Agriculture
mechanization
Green Revolution
29. Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants - but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who ingest the chemicals
capital-intensive agriculture
mechanization
Pesticides
feedlots
30. 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
Truck farming
Topsoil loss
Second Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
31. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
Topsoil loss
Winnow
Intensive cultivation
agricultural origin
32. 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
Hull
Second Agricultural Revolution
Swidden
von Thunen Model
33. A flooded field for growing rice
luxury crops
Combine
Intensive cultivation
Sawah
34. Seed of a cereal grain
biotechnology
Grain
Specialty crops
Shifting cultivation
35. 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
Milkshed
Prime agricultural alnd
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Thresh
36. 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
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
Desertification
37. 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
Spring wheat
Genetically modified foods
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Chaff
38. The growing of fruits - vegetables - and flowers
metallurgy
Horticulture
Winter wheat
Cereal grain
39. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
Wet rice
Fertile Crescent
Industrial Revolution
Prime agricultural alnd
40. Another name for shifting cultivation - so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Grain
Thunian patterns
Commercial agriculture
41. The process of urban areas expanding outwards - usually in the form of suburbs - and developing over fertile agricultural land
Industrial Revolution
Urban sprawl
Genetically modified foods
plantation agriculture
42. 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
feedlots
Planned agricultural economy
First Agricultural Revolution
43. 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
plant domestication
biotechnology
Shifting cultivation
44. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Thresh
Pastoral nomadian
Winter wheat
Milkshed
45. Agricultural hearth
agricultural origin
agribusiness
Commercial agriculture
Genetically modified foods
46. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants
Horticulture
Vegetative planting
Agriculture
Animal husbandry
47. An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution
Pastoralism
animal domestication
First Agricultural Revolution
Planned agricultural economy
48. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
Pastoral nomadian
Specialty crops
Industrial Revolution
Spring wheat
49. 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
Hull
Thunian patterns
Winnow
Second Agricultural Revolution
50. The most productive farmland
Prime agricultural alnd
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Wet rice
Thunian patterns