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