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Agriculture Vocab
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1. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
animal domestication
Winter wheat
Reaper
Specialty crops
2. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
Horticulture
Sustainable agriculture
Wet rice
Genetically modified foods
3. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
Swidden
Grain
Spring wheat
Vegetative planting
4. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
agribusiness
Combine
Plantation
Winnow
5. Malay word for wet rice - commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
Paddy
capital-intensive agriculture
Specialty crops
luxury crops
6. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Commercial agriculture
Subsistence agriculture
Sawah
Prime agricultural alnd
7. Crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides or fertilizers
organic agriculture
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Combine
Intensive subsistence agriculture
8. Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals - as well as land used for grazing
Pasture
Double cropping
Pesticides
mechanization
9. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Milkshed
Combine
Truck farming
Pastoralism
10. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
plantation agriculture
Topsoil loss
Pastoral nomadian
Combine
11. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
Thunian patterns
Prime agricultural alnd
luxury crops
Industrial Revolution
12. The process of urban areas expanding outwards - usually in the form of suburbs - and developing over fertile agricultural land
Pasture
Urban sprawl
Planned agricultural economy
Prime agricultural alnd
13. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants
Vegetative planting
plantation agriculture
von Thunen Model
Animal husbandry
14. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Seed agriculture
First Agricultural Revolution
capital-intensive agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
15. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
extensive agriculture
Fertile Crescent
Third Agricultural Revolution
Subsistence agriculture
16. The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
Agriculture
plantation agriculture
Urban sprawl
Prime agricultural alnd
17. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
Prime agricultural alnd
Combine
Ranching
Crop
18. Commercial gardening and fruit farming - so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
Truck farming
Animal husbandry
Third Agricultural Revolution
Combine
19. When cash crops are grown on large estates
plantation agriculture
Sawah
Chaff
Subsistence agriculture
20. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Topsoil loss
Ranching
Salinization
Wet rice
21. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Industrial Revolution
Winter wheat
Animal husbandry
22. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Urban sprawl
Ranching
Spring wheat
Transhumance
23. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
plant domestication
Labor-intensive agriculture
Commercial agriculture
plantation agriculture
24. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
Ranching
von Thunen Model
Winnow
Third Agricultural Revolution
25. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Double cropping
Swidden
First Agricultural Revolution
Hull
26. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Pastoralism
Genetically modified foods
Grain
Thunian patterns
27. The most productive farmland
Prime agricultural alnd
extensive agriculture
Plantation
Ridge tillage
28. 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
von Thunen Model
agribusiness
Transhumance
Hull
29. 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
plantation agriculture
Green Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
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
Paddy
Horticulture
Topsoil loss
Animal husbandry
31. 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
Truck farming
Prime agricultural alnd
biotechnology
Milkshed
32. 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.
First Agricultural Revolution
Horticulture
Combine
Chaff
33. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Cereal grain
feedlots
Subsistence agriculture
Plantation
34. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Desertification
Hull
metallurgy
Chaff
35. 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
Double cropping
Plantation
Intensive subsistence agriculture
36. Degradation of land - especially in semiarid areas - primarily because of human actions like excessive crop platning - animal grazing - and tree cutting
Chaff
Desertification
Third Agricultural Revolution
von Thunen Model
37. To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
Swidden
animal domestication
Hull
Thresh
38. In agriculture - the replacement of human labor with technology or machines
Pastoralism
Third Agricultural Revolution
mechanization
Green Revolution
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
mechanization
Urban sprawl
Industrial Revolution
Animal husbandry
40. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
Wet rice
Labor-intensive agriculture
luxury crops
Cereal grain
41. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Fertile Crescent
Winter wheat
Green Revolution
luxury crops
42. Seed of a cereal grain
Swidden
Mediterranean agriculture
Grain
Crop rotation
43. An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals - such as cattle - horses - sheep - and goats
Ranching
Double cropping
von Thunen Model
Animal husbandry
44. Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants - but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who ingest the chemicals
Crop
Pesticides
organic agriculture
Shifting cultivation
45. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
Seed agriculture
Subsistence agriculture
Green Revolution
Crop rotation
46. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
Commercial agriculture
Swidden
agribusiness
Desertification
47. An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution
Labor-intensive agriculture
Planned agricultural economy
Fertile Crescent
Second Agricultural Revolution
48. System of planting crops on ridge tops - in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
Grain
Ridge tillage
Green Revolution
Genetically modified foods
49. Type of specialized farming occuring only in the areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails along the shores of the Mediterranean sea
Genetically modified foods
Thresh
Mediterranean agriculture
Ranching
50. 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
Topsoil loss
Intensive subsistence agriculture
metallurgy
biotechnology
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