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Agriculture Vocab
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1. Malay word for wet rice - commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
Salinization
Thunian patterns
Paddy
Crop
2. 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
Reaper
Winnow
agribusiness
3. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Genetically modified foods
Paddy
animal domestication
Subsistence agriculture
4. Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield
Third Agricultural Revolution
Intensive cultivation
extensive agriculture
Milkshed
5. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
capital-intensive agriculture
metallurgy
Planned agricultural economy
Transhumance
6. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants
Vegetative planting
Commercial agriculture
Animal husbandry
Paddy
7. 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
Paddy
von Thunen Model
Transhumance
Grain
8. Type of specialized farming occuring only in the areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails along the shores of the Mediterranean sea
Transhumance
plant domestication
Chaff
Mediterranean agriculture
9. An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution
Salinization
extensive agriculture
Thresh
Planned agricultural economy
10. 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
Mediterranean agriculture
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Ranching
Pasture
11. The technique of separating metals from ores.
Spring wheat
Seed agriculture
Wet rice
metallurgy
12. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
Labor-intensive agriculture
Thunian patterns
animal domestication
Swidden
13. The outer covering of a seed
Truck farming
Pesticides
Hull
Third Agricultural Revolution
14. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
mechanization
luxury crops
Urban sprawl
Wet rice
15. 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
Horticulture
animal domestication
Third Agricultural Revolution
Commercial agriculture
16. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Subsistence agriculture
Double cropping
Winter wheat
Pastoralism
17. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Vegetative planting
Double cropping
plantation agriculture
Shifting cultivation
18. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Commercial agriculture
Animal husbandry
Ranching
Transhumance
19. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Specialty crops
Industrial Revolution
Wet rice
Pastoralism
20. The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
extensive agriculture
Agriculture
Pastoralism
Second Agricultural Revolution
21. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
plant domestication
Winnow
luxury crops
Pesticides
22. The most productive farmland
Thunian patterns
agribusiness
Prime agricultural alnd
Swidden
23. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Subsistence agriculture
Specialty crops
Winnow
Green Revolution
24. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Combine
Seed agriculture
Ranching
Labor-intensive agriculture
25. Seed of a cereal grain
Fertile Crescent
agricultural origin
Thunian patterns
Grain
26. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
Pastoral nomadian
Labor-intensive agriculture
biotechnology
Spring wheat
27. An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals - such as cattle - horses - sheep - and goats
Industrial Revolution
Ridge tillage
Animal husbandry
Pesticides
28. The growing of fruits - vegetables - and flowers
Truck farming
Crop rotation
Horticulture
Slash-and-burn agriculture
29. Another name for shifting cultivation - so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
Reaper
biotechnology
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Urban sprawl
30. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
Seed agriculture
Pastoral nomadian
Crop
Fertile Crescent
31. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Specialty crops
agricultural origin
Reaper
32. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
Sustainable agriculture
Crop rotation
First Agricultural Revolution
Pastoral nomadian
33. When cash crops are grown on large estates
Green Revolution
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Fertile Crescent
plantation agriculture
34. 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.
Fertile Crescent
First Agricultural Revolution
Spring wheat
feedlots
35. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Pastoral nomadian
Chaff
capital-intensive agriculture
Commercial agriculture
36. In agriculture - the replacement of human labor with technology or machines
agricultural origin
biotechnology
mechanization
capital-intensive agriculture
37. The process of urban areas expanding outwards - usually in the form of suburbs - and developing over fertile agricultural land
Planned agricultural economy
Urban sprawl
Swidden
Crop rotation
38. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Salinization
Agriculture
Milkshed
Prime agricultural alnd
39. 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
Pesticides
von Thunen Model
Sustainable agriculture
luxury crops
40. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Animal husbandry
Labor-intensive agriculture
agribusiness
Chaff
41. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
plantation agriculture
Second Agricultural Revolution
extensive agriculture
Subsistence agriculture
42. A grass yielding grain for food
Cereal grain
Green Revolution
Reaper
Pasture
43. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Desertification
Crop
extensive agriculture
Ranching
44. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
metallurgy
Intensive cultivation
agribusiness
Animal husbandry
45. 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
Salinization
Cereal grain
Topsoil loss
agricultural origin
46. 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
biotechnology
organic agriculture
Grain
47. 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
extensive agriculture
Fertile Crescent
Second Agricultural Revolution
Wet rice
48. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Winter wheat
Swidden
Fertile Crescent
feedlots
49. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
Intensive cultivation
Wet rice
Reaper
Labor-intensive agriculture
50. A flooded field for growing rice
Grain
Sustainable agriculture
Sawah
capital-intensive agriculture
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